CS 1110: Python T-Th 9:05 or T-Th 11:15 in Olin 155 CS 1110: Introduction to Computing Using Python Spring 2017 About: Materials: Handouts: Assessment: Resources: Python in CS 1110 A guide by Erik Andersen, David Gries, Lillian Lee, Steve Marschner, Charlie Van Loan, & Walker White with contributions from Molly Feldman Python comes in several shapes and sizes. To make sure that everything works properly, we require that every single person in the course use the same version of Python.

The documentation for the iPython Notebook is top-notch. I am only copying the keyboard shortcuts here so that I have quick access to them as I learn them. I like the notebook interface so much, despite it being browser-based, that I am actually using it as a notebook and I’m doing some drafting of my MLA paper in it. The most basic way to create and run a Python program is to create an empty file with a.py extension, and point to that file from the command line with python filename.py. Alternatively, you can use the default Python IDLE which comes installed with Python. You can write and execute your code inside IDLE. Spyder Python is an open source IDE for Python, best suited for scientific python development. It is a lightweight software, written in Python itself and available as free to use under MIT license. It is a lightweight software, written in Python itself and available as free to use under MIT license.