So, let's begin. Open up your Python editor. If you've installed Anaconda, the best one to open is Spyder. You should see something like this:

On the left is the code editor - you can see we've written some code in there. On the lower right is the console - this is where the program will write stuff or where error messages will appear - in this case, the program has run successfully and printed (written to the screen) "hello world". The green triangular button runs the code.

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Let's build some code. First, delete your version of the code below (it doesn't do anything we need to worry about yet):

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Wed May 20 14:20:40 2024

@author: Alice
"""

Then write the following in the code editor:

print("hello world")

and press the run button.

The words "hello world" should appear in the console, as in the picture above.

If it hasn't worked, we'll look at why in a second. In the meantime, move on to the next page:

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