Python Getting Started
Python Getting Started Python Install Many PCs and Macs will have python already installed. To check if you have python installed on a Windows PC, search in the start bar for Python or run the following on the Command Line (cmd.exe): C:\Users\ Your Name >python --version To check if you have python installed on a Linux or Mac, then on linux open the command line or on Mac open the Terminal and type: python --version If you find that you do not have Python installed on your computer, then you can download it for free from the following website: https://www.python.org/ Python Quickstart Python is an interpreted programming language, this means that as a developer you write Python (.py) files in a text editor and then put those files into the python interpreter to be executed. The way to run a python file is like this on the command line: C:\Users\ Your Name >python helloworld.py Where "helloworld.py" is the name of your python file. Let's write our first Python fi