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Why should you choose Python?

Python is a modern program language and it's easy to learn. You can use it in a variety of solutions like data science, machine learning, web development, GUI development, iot, and others. There's a strongPython community that supports this language.

How to install Python?

Python is already available by default for the most of Linux and UNIX distributions. If you're using windows OS, it's possible to useWindows Subsystem for Linux akaWSL to use your favorite linux distribution in your machine. It's really easy to do this. Read theMicrosoft official documentation to know how to install it.

If you prefer to install pyhton, you can see further informationshere.

You can run this command to confirm that Python is installed

For UNIX or Linux distros

python3--version

For Windows

py--version

Start using Python

You should to consider the commandpython3 forUNIX orLinux distros andpy forWindows

You can use the command line to execute Python like this.

python3

And then, you can start coding like that

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Using an IDE

I really suggest you to use a modern IDE for coding. For this example I'll useVisual Studio Code akaVSCode, but you can choose another one. Python website has apage to show you some recommended IDEs to use.

When VSCode is installed, you can click onExtensions icon and typePython on search bar. Then you can click install underPython extension developped by Microsoft.

Now you able to write your first code. For that you can create a new file calledhello.py. Insert the a code inside this file.

print ('Hello world!')

and run it to see the result on the terminal.

Notes

• You can access this code ongithub.
• py extension is either called a python program or python script.

Typos or suggestions?

If you've found a typo, a sentence that could be improved or anything else that should be updated on this blog post, you can access it through a git repository and make a pull request. If you feel comfortable with github, instead of posting a comment, please go directly tohttps://github.com/campelo/documentation and open a new pull request with your changes.