Getting Started

A comprehensive tutorial on the Python programming language. This tutorial covers three main groups of users:

1. Beginners
2. Intermediate
3. Advanced

Building the docs

The documentation is hosted online. If you want to build it, you will need the following:

1. Python
2. Sphinx
3. Pip (Optional)

Tools needed

These are the tools needed to follow the examples in the tutorials.

Required

• Name: Python

  Version: 2.7

  URL: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.5/

  Purpose: Programming Language
• Name: Git

  Version: 1.8.3.4

  URL: http://git-scm.com/

  Purpose: Source Control

Optional

• Name: Notepad ++

  Version: 6.4.4

  URL: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

  Purpose: Editor

Goal #1: Install Python

This section has instructions for installing Python and running Python from a command prompt.

• Setup: Windows
• Setup: OSX
• Setup: Linux

Goal #2: Prepare a text editor

This section has instructions for installing Python and running Python from a command prompt.

• Editor: Windows
• Editor: OSX
• Editor: Linux

Goal #3: Practice starting and exiting Python

This section has instructions for installing Python and running Python from a command prompt.

• Start: Windows
• Start: OSX
• Start: Linux