Writing Your First Program in Python

You can download the Python notebooks used in the lecture from the link below. It is recommended that you keep executing the commands on your computer at pace with the lecture on your jupyter notebook. Also, from the coding perspective for practice questions and out of video questions, you are expected to use jupyter notebook.  

Now that you have installed Python notebook on your computer, let us start our journey in Python by writing a small code and see how it executes.

You have come across certain shortcuts involved in the execution of demo code. But there are other shortcuts that may come in handy as well while using the Jupyter notebook. For these shortcuts, you can download and explore the notebook given below. It provides a brief description of different shortcuts, and you will gain expertise by using them regularly during hands-on practice.

Additional Reading

If you want to know about the shortcuts for mac users and magic commands existing in jupyter notebook, the links are provided below:

Jupyter mac shortcuts

Jupyter magic commands