Question

I understand how to program everything for the first lecture, and I have it all working in the shell, but how do I actually create a program?

Answer 1

Assuming you're using IDLE as your shell, just go to File > New Window, then write your program in the new window with the proper syntax, save it as *.py, then while you're still in that file window, go to the program menu, click on the "Run" pulldown menu, and click "Run Module" (or just hit F5). That will execute the program.

Answer 2

thanks

Answer 3

If you're using only the shell, you can simply save as something.py and then at the shell type "python something.py". For textmate, at mac, command+r does the trick.

Answer 4

you can write source code in any text editor then save as name.py and do python name.py as already mentioned