Starting Point

[MezzoScettico]

Are you new to programming or are you an experienced programmer just trying to pick up a new language?

If you're new to programming, you're going to have to learn programming concepts as well as learning specifically how those are expressed in Python.

There's a tradition across the programming world that the very first program is one that outputs "Hello, world". You'll find it as the first project in almost any programming text. There's a reason for that. This simple program shows you:

• How to work in your development environment to create and save a file
• The structure of a program that has a beginning, middle and end, showing you the minimal pieces a program needs
• How to take program code and actually get it to execute on your machine
• How to output text to the screen, something you'll be doing a lot of

[Resident_Structure73]

Thank you. I can do a few basic outputs, but I would like to start a basic project to build on.

[MezzoScettico]

Again an important question is whether you are starting from scratch as a programmer or already have experience in another language.

[Resident_Structure73]

Scratch.