<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Morgan,</div>
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<div>Have you installed Python on your computer? If you are using Microsoft Windows, you can download and install Python from here:</div>
<div><a href="http://python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/">http://python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/</a></div>
<div>and select "python-2.5.2.msi".</div>
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<div>Once it's installed, you should have a directory on your machine called "C:\python25". If you save your program with a .py extension in that folder (for example, call it morgan.py), then all you have to do is open a command window (Start > Run and enter "cmd"), go to the C:\python25 directory, and type:</div>
<div>python morgan.py</div>
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<div>Personally, if you are just staring out to program, I would recommend using the Python shell that comes with the package I referred to. Alan's tutorial, found here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/">http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/</a></div>
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<div>is very helpful, as is this site, which is what I used to start learning Python:</div>
<div><a href="http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/">http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/</a></div>
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<div>Hope that helps. Good luck!</div>
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<div>Samir</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Morgan Thorpe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thorpmj07@cvxmck.edu.au">thorpmj07@cvxmck.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">Hello.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">I'm am very new to the whole programming sence.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">I am trying to catch on but as soon as i want to write a program i've been told to use like 'notepad' in windows XP and save it as a .py file</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">i have gotten this far. Am i wrong so far?</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">If i am right why is it that i can't run it in anyway besides it opening in 'notepad' i've tried opening with Python but it doesn't work.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Thanks,</font></div>
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