Question

Have installed python, when i click idle (python GUI)
a pythone shell appears. Do i need to install something else to start coding or this is the text editor. Am looking for something like dreamweaver or better.

Answer 1

http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring10/V22.0002-001/instruc.html it'll help

Answer 2

Javan, in the Python Shell you have open, type this on the first line

var = 2

Hit enter after you type var = 2. On the second line type

print(var)

Then hit enter. Once you hit enter, it will print the number 2.

So it will look something like this

Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> var = 2
>>> print (var)
2
>>>

This will allow you to learn Python but remember Python is a scripting language and what you have open is a GUI to the interpreter.

If you want to build programs that you can click on and just run. You can open up notepad and insert the following code

var = 2
print(var)
print "Press any key to continue"
a=raw_input()

Once you have inserted the following code, save it as whatever.py . Now you can double click the file whatever.py you just created and it will run the code. The interpreter will popup and run your code.

You can also run the code from the GUI Shell you have open. Just go to File->Open and then open the file whatever.py. This should get you started. Python is a really neat language and can do many wonderful things.

Here are some good simple Python Tutorials to get you started. http://www.sthurlow.com/python/lesson01/ // Nice simple tutorials

and

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/

Answer 3

quite frankly the best tools you'll ever have for coding are a text editor ( I prefer notepad++ or nedit) and a command line compiler so in this case use your shell/CMD window and call:

python "path/to/file/file.py" [whatEverSwitchCommandsYourProgramNeedsHere]

Everything else is just confusing and bothersome in my opinion.

Answer 4

Meydrew.
Yours noted.
MathDoodler
I found it very interesting and brain opening in python world.
Thanks all.
Can i create tables, forms and staff?

Answer 5

When you are talking about tables and forms, are you referring to Web/server side programming? Like PHP. Tables as in a database or outputing CSS/HTML tables and forms? Anyways, the answer is yes. You can do just about anything with Python.