[Tutor] (no subject) [Starting Python]

[Danny Yoo]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Iain Long wrote:

> I was reading about instant hacking so i clicked the windows icon and
> run and typed in notepad... and did an example that was shown...
>
>    radius = 30
> 
>    print radius*radius*3.14 .... i don't know what to do next

Hi Iain,

Glad to hear that you're starting to learn Python.  Please feel free to
ask questions here on Tutor; we'll try to answer them as well as we can!


About your question: it depends on what you want to do.  It sounds like
you'd like to start fiddling around with Python.  You can take a tour
through Python with this link:

    http://python.org/doc/Newbies.html

This link is connected to many good Python tutorials, and you'll get a
better feeling for what we can do with Python here.


If you haven't been able to get:

>    radius = 30
> 
>    print radius*radius*3.14

working yet, you might find this introduction useful:

    http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro

It shows, step by step, how to use the text editor that comes with Python.


Best of wishes to you.