Getting Started with Python in 2023
Python is a powerful language, but setting the workflow up can be a hassle. Let’s make it simple.
In this series, we’re going to set up python from scratch and use it to test whether Zipf’s Law holds on a given data set. We’re going to break this tutorial into several articles: one to set up a python program, a few to cover the features of python we’ll use, and one to actually write the program.
This article will set you up to write python to you heart’s content.
This Article is for Beginners
If you already know python and how to set things up, this series will not be for you. This series is aimed at people who want to get into python programming, not necessarily people who already know python. Later on, I’ll do more advanced stuff with python and other programming languages that you might find interesting.
Other Ways of Getting Started
There are plenty of other ways of getting started with python, from setting up things like anaconda or by using Jupyter notebooks. I won’t talk about those ways because overwhelming people with choice is a bad way to teach them something. If you write an article that contains another way of getting started…
