How to make your first program in Python

Today, we will show you how to make your first "Hello World" Python program.

To start, we need to first install the official Python editor (Known as IDLE) from the official website (Instructions on how install are here)

Once we installed Python, we can open the IDLE editor. Search for IDLE in your applications menu of your system and open it (The exception is on a mobile system, where you launch a different app, or open Replit in the browser). 

When you first open the [IDLE] editor, you will see that it shows a command-line looking screen known as the Shell:

This is where you enter single-line commands such as print().

To open the editor, go to File and select New File or use Ctrl+N. A blank text editor opens:

This is where we will make our program.

In the editor, type print("Hello World!") and save the file using Ctrl+S or File->Save. Specify a name for the file and save it. Note that the file extension should be .py, but the editor places that automatically.

Once saved, the program can be run by using the shortcut F5 (Fn+button with F5) or by using Run->Run Module. Once run, you can see the output:

Tip: If you wish to, you can change the size of the font by going to Options->Configure IDLE and change the number under Font Size.

Congratulations! You made your first Python program!

We can not only print text (Strings), we can also print numbers (integers), decimals (floats), characters (chars), and more: