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