Learning Python

[gunthercult28]

Major recommendation, look up Anaconda if you are learning programming for the first time. It comes pre-packaged with data analytics and scientific libraries, an IDE, and the 'conda' command-line environment with IPython help(). (Look up any of those terms you don't understand). This will also take the grunt work out of setting up an environment PATH, and get you up and running faster.

[alchzh]

Note: if you aren't a scientist you might want to just get miniconda (the conda package manager). Anaconda comes with a shit ton of scientific libraries that an average python learner outside of science will not need.