An introduction to programming in Python 3, aimed at people who are new to programming.

3. Created in the late 80's by Guido van Rossum

4. Designed to be fun to use, as well as flexible.

7. Some developers still choose to use Python 2.6

9. PyGame

10. Google App Engine

11. Quickly

12. PyQt

13. PyGtk

14. Zope

15. And....more!

17. Development can be done either in a text editor like gedit, vim, or gvim

18. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are available, as well (IDLE, PyDev for Eclipse).

21. Dive into Python ( http://diveintopython3.org )

22. Koders Code Search ( http://www.koders.com/ )

23. YouTube tutorials

24. Google

25. IRC channels

27. Explicit is better than implicit.

28. Simple is better than complex.

29. Complex is better than complicated.

30. Flat is better than nested.

31. Sparse is better than dense.

32. Readability counts.

34. Although practicality beats purity.

35. Errors should never pass silently.

36. Unless explicitly silenced.

37. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

39. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

40. Now is better than never.

41. Although never is often better than right now.

42. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

43. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.

44. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

46. woo@beast:~$ python3

47. Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Apr 15 2010, 15:35:48)

48. [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2

49. Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

50. >>>

53. >>> newlug = "San Dimas High School Football Rules!"

54. >>> print(newlug)

55. San Dimas High School Football Rules!

57. Name it ”helloNEWLUG.py”

58. Insert:

59. print("Hello NEWLUG!")

60. Save and Close the file.

63. Data types (String, Boolean, Tuple, Dictionary, etc)

64. Functions

65. Arguments

66. User Input

67. Exception Handling and Redirection

68. Loops

69. Soon, this will make sense:

73. ...And now for something completely different

74. Questions?