Basic Python (and Git) lessons

Prerequisites:

• You have a computer to use for your own work
• Python is installed on your computer
  • For 2024, Python version 3.12 is required. 3.13 WILL NOT WORK!
  • When installing Python, make sure to check the box requesting Python to be added to your path!
• Git has been installed on your computer
  • Installing Git requires answering a series of complicated questions. You may want a mentor (or student expert) to help with this.
• You can run Python and get an interactive session.
  • An interactive session prompts you with >>> and waits for you to type commands or expressions. It will then evaluate what you typed, and execute any commands and print the value of any expressions. (This is called a "read-evaluate-print loop", sometimes known as a REPL.)
  • You can exit from an interactive session on Windows by pressing Enter acter a line where you only typed Ctrl-Z.

Use git clone to copy the repository to your computer

• Make sure there is a directory called repos/ under your home directory. (Use the pwd, cd, and ls commands!)
• Use cd to change into the repos/ directory.
• Type git clone https://github.com/YVHS-Project212/PythonLessons

You should now have a directory called PythonLessons/ under your repos/ directory, and that PythonLessons/ directory should contain all the lessons. Use cd to change directories into Lesson1 (or whichever lesson you want to start with) and learn some Python!