025-python.md

2.5 - Running Programs

Lets create and run a very small python program

Example

1. Create and "assignments" folder, navigate to it, and create an empty file called hello.py

   cd ~/Development
   mkdir assignments
   cd assignmets
   touch hello.py
   

2. Put this simple python program into hello.py

   print "Hello, im a python program"

3. Run hello.py

   pwd
   cd ~/Development/assignments
   python hello.py

Try It

1. In your assignments folder, create a new python program called "aplusb.py"

   a = 5
   b = 7
   print "The sum of a and b is" + str(a + b)
   

2. Run this program