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hi,
I am new to programming and have chosen python...
I currently have python v2.7.3 and active python 2.7 installed as recommended by several sites
I should mention that I am using windows 7.
Firstly, please recommend a good resource to learn this language, as most do not seem to deal with new learners especially when it comes to errors and setting up the software to start learning . There seem to be too many gaps and then it seems that I will have to go through frequent errors and look around for help
Secondly, I am trying to run a file that goes as such
print "Hello World!"
print "Hello Again."
print "I like typing this."
print "This is fun."
print "Yay! printing."
print "I'd much rather you 'not'"
print "I "said" do not touch this"
saved as ex1.py to a folder created for the exercise
this was done using gedit, as part of the first exercise from the book learn python the hard way, saved as ex.py and then run from cmd and python terminal
This gave an error as such
>>> python ex.py
File "<stdin>", line 1
python ex.py
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
I have seen a few forums that say the command is being from from the python interpreter and it should be done differently
I have added the python path in user environment variables, if that is important
Can some one explain what that means and how to do it? For a new learner this is very discouraging and I hope some one can help me get this right
I am new to programming and have chosen python...
I currently have python v2.7.3 and active python 2.7 installed as recommended by several sites
I should mention that I am using windows 7.
Firstly, please recommend a good resource to learn this language, as most do not seem to deal with new learners especially when it comes to errors and setting up the software to start learning . There seem to be too many gaps and then it seems that I will have to go through frequent errors and look around for help
Secondly, I am trying to run a file that goes as such
print "Hello World!"
print "Hello Again."
print "I like typing this."
print "This is fun."
print "Yay! printing."
print "I'd much rather you 'not'"
print "I "said" do not touch this"
saved as ex1.py to a folder created for the exercise
this was done using gedit, as part of the first exercise from the book learn python the hard way, saved as ex.py and then run from cmd and python terminal
This gave an error as such
>>> python ex.py
File "<stdin>", line 1
python ex.py
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
I have seen a few forums that say the command is being from from the python interpreter and it should be done differently
I have added the python path in user environment variables, if that is important
Can some one explain what that means and how to do it? For a new learner this is very discouraging and I hope some one can help me get this right