Introduction to Python Lesson 1

PROGRAMMING

Learning Outcomes: LO1:Explain what python is and what it can be used for. LO2: Use Python to create a basic program.

What is Python? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXKVOL wpDg8 Clear Flexible Large and comprehensive standard library Readability General purpose High level

Python is: Higher-level language Clear Flexible Large and comprehensive standard library General Purpose Close to the English language (Readability)

So what can it be used for? Web development Databases Science and Maths Education Software Development Game and 3D graphics Can be used in the development of websites Used to store and comprehend large sets of data, and can be used to access databases Scientists can use Python for their experiments for instance if they had a weather sensor and needed to get and store results. Mathematicians may uses python for equations. Used to teach children a higher level programming language. Python is often used as a support language for software developers, for build control and management, testing, and in many other ways. Python is widely used in commercial and hobby game development. For instance this is a brick breaker game designed in python. So girls you could could make this pretty by having background images of your choice and the blocks in pink for instance. This is one of the bonus’s of using python, you can easily change these kinds of things.

Writing a program in Python! First we must Open Idle, this is where we write our code in python programming language. >File >Search Python

File, New Window, File.

Printing a string in Python to the screen Example: Print (“Hello World”) This bit of text in quotation marks is called a string. Printing a string in Python to the screen

Your now ready to write your first program using Python!

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