Programming requires alot of skill and virtue ,most people aren't born with it while others ,well you know what i mean. But this skill can be learnt,with a little bit of determination and a little bit of enthusiasm , anyone can learn to program. Although most people start out by learning languages such as QBASIC,C,C++,PASCAL etc .I'll not recommend anyone of them to a complete beginner. Qbasic is a good language for novices and beginners but due to the fact that it's almost dead now, we won't be covering any part of it C,C++ are good languages but are more than what a beginner can grasp.C's cryptic syntax and it's down to earth nature makes it my last choice,same goes for C++. In this tutorial I'll be explaining to you programming with python,an interpreted programming language.This tutorial is meant for the complete beginner so,i'm not going to be covering topics such as objest oriented programmin (oop).But i'll try my best to add new things and concepts every once in a while.

Creating the programming mindset

What does programming mean ??How do i learn to program??,what kind of software do i need ??,these are the questions that are most frequently asked by beginners .Well ,I'd define programming as analyzing any problem ,then trying to solve the problems thgrough trial and error method or right on the spot (nailed 'em ,heehee ) . It's as simple as that.Progamming can be learnt but cannot be mugged up ,you need to practice all the examples i'll give,try them out,analyze and ask youself questions .(in programming curiosity never kills the cat.) Python interpreter comes with the RED HAT LINUX package ,but for all of you who aren't fortunate enough can also get Python for WINDOWS (9x,2000,whatever..). Well here's what you've been so impatiently waiting for , your'e very first program in PYTON ,exciting isn't it ??

example 1 your'e very first program>

 You can either do you're programming in the immediate mode or you van save your'e program and then run it.

WEll the first example is quite self-explanatory,the Print statement prints whatever you want it to.if you need to print numbers you don't need to give the quotes,while on the other hand if you have to print strings (i.e non numerical characters given under quote ),you will need to give the quotes.here's another program using the Print statement.

example //bread crums all over my shirt??

  print

  print "5+5 = " ,5+5

  print "5-3 = " ,5-3

  print "5^2 = " ,5**2

  print "5 mod 2=",5%2

  print "5 /2 =" ,5/2

  print "5*5 =" ,5*5

example 3 anything goes >

  print "hello , there"

  print "hi"*5

 In the first example the Print (only) statement tells the interpreter to go to the next line.In pyton + ,- ,* , / are used for addition ,subtraction ,multiplication ,and division respectively ,while these are used for simple operations ,% is used for modulas or to get the remainder and ** is used as exponentiation.

Input statements (getting data from user)

example 4 dum dada dum..i love rock n' roll nanana..

 c=input("enter your'e lucky number number: ")

 a=raw_input("enter your'e name: ")

 print a ," you're lucky number is : ",c

what did that program do??,well it basically asked you the user for a number ,then stored it in a variable(a variable is an entitiy or an object which contains a certain value,either numbers or strings,in this case the variable was C ,which stored a number),then it asked for your'e name which happens to be a string and stored it in variable a. Then the print statement showed output as :

 enter your'e lucky number: 5

 enter your'e name : robin

OUTPUT:

  Robin your'e lucky number is 5

The if statement

example 5

 c=input("enter an integer")

 if c < 0 :

   print"absolute value of",c ," is",-c 

   print"your'e number was :",c 

               <  (less than) 

               >  (greater than) 

               =  (assignment operator) 

               == (equality) 

               != (not equal to) 

     print "wrong input" 

     print "wrong input"

     print "you are elligble to vote" 

               print"even number" 

               print"odd number" 

              print x, 

               print c
example 6 (moving on to something classier,NESTED LOOPS,WOOPS) 
&nsbp;for x in range (1,7,1) :
          for y in range (1,x,): 

                    Print y ,   

          print    

 

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