learn python in hard way-Learn Python the Hard Way

Warnings for Beginners

You are done with this exercise. This exercise might be hard for you depending on your familiarity with your computer. If it is difficult, take the time to read and study and get through it, because until you can do these very basic things you will find it difficult to get much programming done.

If someone tells you to stop at a specific exercise in this book or to skip certain ones, you should ignore that person. Anyone trying to hide knowledge from you, or worse, make you get it from them instead of through your own efforts, is trying to make you depend on them for your skills. Don"t listen to them and do the exercises anyway so that you learn how to educate yourself.

If a programmer tells you to use vim or emacs, just say "no." These editors are for when you are a better programmer. All you need right now is an editor that lets you put text into a file. We will use Atom (from now on called "the text editor" or "a text editor") because it is simple and the same on all computers. Professional programmers use these text editors so it is good enough for you starting out.

A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. Say, "When all of the Python code on your computer is Python 3, then I"ll try to learn it." That should keep them busy for about 10 years. I repeat, do not use Python 3. Python 3 is not used very much, and if you learn Python 2 you can easily learn Python 3 when you need it. If you learn Python 3 then you"ll still have to learn Python 2 to get anything done. Just learn Python 2 and ignore people saying Python 3 is the future.

A programmer will eventually tell you to use Mac OS X or Linux. If the programmer likes fonts and typography, they"ll tell you to get a Mac OS X computer. If he likes control and has a huge beard, he will (or ze will if you prefer non-gendered pronouns of humans with beards) tell you to install Linux. Again, use whatever computer you have right now that works. All you need is an editor, a Terminal, and Python.

Finally, the purpose of this setup helps you do three things very reliably while you work on the exercises:

Write exercises using the Atom text editor.

Run the exercises you wrote.

Fix them when they are broken.

Repeat.

Anything else will only confuse you, so stick to the plan.