This is a concise Python 3 programming tutorial for people who think that reading is boring. I try to show everything with simple code examples; there are no long and complicated explanations with fancy words. If you have never programmed before click here to find out what programming is like and get started.
This tutorial is aimed at people with no programming experience at all or very little programming experience. If you have programmed a lot in the past using some other language you may want to read the official tutorial instead.
You can use Python 3.3 or any newer Python with this tutorial. Don't use Python 2. If you write a Python 2 program now someone will need to convert it to Python 3 later, so it's best to just write Python 3 to begin with. Python 3 code will work just fine in Python 4, so you don't need to worry about that. Python 2 also has horrible Unicode problems, so it's difficult to write Python 2 code that works correctly with non-English characters (like π and ♫).
The tutorial consists of two sections:
