Getting Started

Before we start writing Python code, let’s get you set up and familiar with your tools. In this section, we’ll introduce how your computer organizes files with file paths, walk through installing Python on your machine, and get you comfortable navigating your computer from the command line. With those in place, you’ll write and run your very first Python script. Finally, we’ll introduce Jupyter notebooks - the tool we’ll use to write and run code throughout the rest of this book. By the end of this section, you’ll have everything in place to start programming!