Python programming tutorial

This is a Python 3 programming tutorial for beginners. If you have never programmed before click here to find out what programming is like and get started.

This tutorial is aimed at people with no programming experience at all or very little programming experience. If you have programmed a lot in the past using some other language you may want to read the official tutorial instead.

You can use Python 3.2 or any newer Python with this tutorial. Don't use Python 2. If you write a Python 2 program now someone will need to port it to Python 3 later, so it's best to just write Python 3 to begin with. Python 3 code will work just fine in Python 4, so you don't need to worry about that.

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The tutorial consists of two sections:

Basics

This section will get you started with using Python and you'll be able to learn more about whatever you want after studying it.

Advanced

If you want to learn more advanced techniques, you can also read this section. Most of the techniques explained here are great when you're working on a large project, and your code would be really repetitive without these things.

You can experient with these things freely, but please don't use these techniques just because you know how to use them. Prefer the simple techniques from the Basics part instead when possible. Simple is better than complex.

Other things this tutorial comes with

Important: getting help
Contact me
Setting up a text editor
Answers for excercises in basics and advanced sections
The TODO list

Frequently asked questions

How can I thank you for writing and sharing this tutorial?

You can star this tutorial. Starring is free for you, but it tells me and other people that you like this tutorial.

Go here if you aren't here already and click the "Star" button in the top right corner. You will be asked to create a GitHub account if you don't already have one.

How can I read this tutorial without an Internet connection?

Currently (Feb. 2017) this tutorial is updated often, so it's best to read this tutorial on GitHub to make sure you are reading the latest version. But you can also download this tutorial and read it without Internet if you need to, like this:

Go here if you aren't here already.
Click the big green "Clone or download" button in the top right of the page, then click "Download ZIP".
Open the ZIP, then drag and drop python-tutorial-master to your desktop.
Install Python and open a command prompt or terminal. If you are using Windows, run these commands:
```
cd Desktop
python-tutorial-master
py make-html.py
```
Use these commands instead on Linux and Mac OSX:
```
cd Desktop
cd python-tutorial-master
python3 make-html.py
```
Follow the instructions you see on the terminal or command prompt.

If you have git and you know how to use it, you can also clone the repository instead of downloading a zip and extracting it. An advantage with doing it this way is that you don't need to download the whole tutorial again to get the latest version of it, all you need to do is to pull with git and run make-html.py again.

Authors

I'm Akuli and I have written most of this tutorial, but these people have helped me with it:

TODO: add the names of all beginners who have told me what they struggled with.

If you have trouble with this tutorial please tell me about it and I'll make this tutorial better. If you like this tutorial, please give it a star.

You may use this tutorial freely at your own risk. See LICENSE.

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