Introduction
Overview
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What is Python and what is programming?
Objectives
First objective.
What is programming?
What is Python?
The Python 2 vs Python 3 debate
Why we recommend Python 3.
The structure of Python
- Builtin functions
- The standard library
- 3rd party modules and PyPI
Getting help in Python
- The help() function
- The dir() function
Ways of running Python
- The interactive interpreter/iPython
- Running scripts from the command line
- Jupyter notebooks
- Spyder IDE - recommended
Key Points
First key point.