Python: Introduction & Installation

Completing your degree thinking and yet thinking about which programming language to learn? 

Wanna keep up with the tech community what you need is a great programming language and the dedication to practice and learn it.

 In a course of time, 

I will be delivering articles on tutorials for python and in this particular post.

I am going to introduce you to python and its installation in your personal computers. 

In this blog post, I'm gonna teach you everything you need to know to get started programming in python. 

Python is one of the most popular programming languages, and it's by far one of the easiest ones. 

So, if you're trying to get a job or you're trying to automate your life. 

Python is being learned and adapted by more and more developers. 

Every day developers are moving their projects over to python because it's such a powerful and extremely easy to use language. 

A lot of programming languages available aren't very user-friendly. There's a lot of little things that if you get wrong, your program will yell at you, and it's pretty frustrating.

 Python is the complete opposite of that. 

You need to communicate with your computer in the English language for whatever you want to do. And the language does it.

 It's that simple there's not a whole lot of syntax to learn. You can start writing your first program in seconds by just knowing a bit of syntax.

 In these bunch of blog posts, I'm gonna teach you guys everything you need to know to get started in python.

 I have been working on python for over a year and a half now and worked on some projects.

 With so many people starting to learn python the question isn't, why should you learn python the question is why shouldn't you?

 I personally think everyone should learn a programming language as it is going to be the future of mankind. 

And I think for a lot of people the reason they might not want to learn a programming language is that they're intimidated or they're afraid that it's going to be too hard. 

Trust me I am going to get you through this entire language. 

We're going to talk about all the core and important concepts in python. 

We're going to look at everything you need to know to start programming in python and start being confident in writing scripts and start writing programs that are awesome in doing cool things in your life. 

At the end of the series of tutorial blogs. 

I will help you build some cool python projects and little projects throughout these course articles. 

I'm excited to be teaching you guys. 

I can't wait to get started in this course and I hope you guys stick around and fall along with the course and learn this amazing programming language. I suggest you to keep practicing all the concepts when you read them here. This tutorial demonstrates how to install python onto your computer the correct way. We're also going to install a text editor that we can use to write our python programs. So the first thing to do is to install python on your computer. For that, you just need to head down to the python website. 

You will have a "downloads" button over at the website something like the picture below.

So here's the thing about python there's actually two major versions of python that are in use currently there is python 2 and python 3. You can see in the download sections, there is python two, and here the latest python three version. So there's these two versions that you can download and the first thing we have to decide on which version do we want to download.

The basic difference python two is a legacy version of python which means that it's like an old version and it's not being like actively maintained or supported like officially by python any more.

Python 3 is the future of python. It's like the newest version, it's the one that's getting actively maintained and supported. So there's pros and cons to picking either one. A lot of people say like python 2 has been there for a longer period of time and so there's more resources and libraries. Therefore like there's a few more things that you can do in python than you can do in python three but then again python two is not supported and you know, five or ten years from now probably no one's going to be using it. 

Python three is the future of programming languages. It's the newest version it's the one that you know it's sort of being maintained going forward.

The differences aren't very big. there are a few differences in like some syntax and just so you know little things here and there, but if you learn python three you'll be able to understand the code in this post clearly.

We are going to be learning python three so we're going to want to download python three.

I have a windows machine so I downloaded this version so, just look out for your operating system. Now you have downloaded python 3.8.5. Click on Python 3.8.5 to start downloading directly. You will now have python downloaded in your PC in a couple of minutes.

When that's done downloading go to your downloads folder and you'll see a checkbox something like this:

Now, click on Add Python 3.8 to PATH and then click Install now and Press Next on the other pages and you are good to go.

The next step is we need to choose a text editor as we're going to be writing a bunch of code so we're going to need some environment of some sort that we can write all that code in. And really you can write python in any text editor you could write it in the note pad, it doesn't really matter but there are special text editors that are designed just for writing python code.

These are called IDEs and that stands for an integrated development environment. It's basically just a special environment where we can you know run and execute our python code. 

So you can choose a compiler of your own choice be it Anaconda, Visual Studio Code, or Pycharm.

In the upcoming blog posts of this series, we will get started with the language.