Python Excercise One
by adweb.admin
Alright! Our first excercise! This is where the rubber hits the road. Where the nose goes to the grind, and whatever other cliche you want to use.
Excercise One—so excited!
[note] i think i Will go to disney Land yesterday;.[/note]
[note]Enter one of many possible cliche’s that fit this bill.[/note]
[note] SCREEEEEEECH!!!! Hold up…do what to who…when? Looks like I am going to have to dig a little deeper before I take this one on.[/note]
Okay….apparently I have to go download Python first (15.5MB file size). Done!
Here is what the .txt file says:
Okay…so I got the download done and have read the .txt file now to install this is what I see when I begin the install:
Okay…you know the drill…go through the whole install rigamarole hitting continue until it is all said and done.
…And finally we get this…
The whole process including taking the screen shots and editing in photoshop took all of 5 minutes.
Now…to see how this baby works….ON WITH THE LESSON!
Where were we?? Ohhhh…Yes:
DONE!
[note]Hey that worked! No PEBKAC Errors encountered here![/note]
On to the next step:

And that is what I go on my screen….PROGRESS
[note]By the way…if the opposite of “pro” is “con” doesn’t it follow that the opposite of “progress” is “congress”? I’m just saying….[/note]
Next….
[note]And here it is….the first PEBKAC I have encountered….or is it a bug??? HMMMMMM…[/note]
Basically, I tried using the >>>print ‘hello’ in various ways, with space, with quote, without quote, just about every combination I could think of and got a bunch of syntax errors…but when I just wrote ‘hello’ in single quotes something happened.

Okay….maybe that was part of the exercise…who knows…anyways the show must go on.
[note]Okay…have to admit….this part stumped me… How do you create a Python Script???? [/note]
Then I remembered…
Recommended Posts
Python Revisited
January 24, 2012
Okay…Back to Python
January 7, 2012
Using the Mac Terminal: As it relates to Python Programming
January 7, 2012