Pls am new to programming, I saw a reply to one of the questions asked by a beginner, dat he should start wit python, now I have downloaded python, gedit and zed shaw learn the hard way ebook and am ready to start, but I have bin struggling wit creating directories in command terminal!!! Am stuck at exercise 0 in the ebook, any help pls!!!

I guess ur using Windows 7, if Yes, i'll give U a detailed procedure of d whole stuff when am on my PC at nite.

Yes goon am using win 7, tank you, will be xpectin it boss!!!

Click on the Start Menu [/b]on the taskbar of your system. After that Right-Click on [b]Computer, Then Click on Properties.
A window will appear showing the properties / basic information about your computer. I would have attached a screenshot here but the file is too large to be uploaded.

On the top-right of the window, look for "Advanced system settings", U would see something like this on the top right of the window:

When U click on advanced system settings, another window like this would come up:

Click on the last tab titled "Environment Variables", Another window like this would pop up:

Leave the first table titled "User variables for owner" and go to the second table titled "System variables", In the second table titled "System Variables", scroll down till U get to a tab titled "Path", double-click on "Path", another window will pop up with two tabs titled "variable name" and "variable value". Click on variable value, at the end of the last letter in the tab labelled "variable value", add a semi-colon(and then type in the path of your python environment. If ur using python 2.7, the path would be C:\Python27, if its python 2.6, the path would be C:\Python26 and so on and so forth. Am not really a gud teacher but i hope the following screenshots would help you:

scroll down to this

When you double click on it, you would see this:

My variable path has already been added in the pic, just follow the above procedure step by step and am sure u would get it right. After that, to call python on your command line, just open ur command line and type python. The python interpreter mode will be initialized. If u have further problems with this, do not fail to ask.

When u finish the procedure, do not forget to save.
Thankz

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Python is wonderful. Am learning it too.

you should try using the msi installers, you could go back to source when you get advanced. I recomend that u use A byte of python by Swaroop C. H. It is currently the best python tutorial on the web for biginners, and is actually recomended by the python comunity. It is available at www.swaroopch.com/notes/python. Please feel free to ask questions

Learning Python by Mark Lutz still the best python book

Pls, after dis link, how can i get to the python tutorial proper?

My variable path has already been added in the pic, just follow the above procedure step by step and am sure u would get it right. After that, to call python on your command line, just open ur command line and type python. The python interpreter mode will be initialized. If u have further problems with this, do not fail to ask.

Good day sir
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I followed your teaching here on setting path but I got hooked somewhere. After clicking on PATH under system variable, this appeared (picture below)
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I don't know which of the two path that appeared that I'll type in the :C/python38
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Please reply me

Bestchisom:

Good day sir
.
I followed your teaching here on setting path but I got hooked somewhere. After clicking on PATH under system variable, this appeared (picture below)
.
I don't know which of the two path that appeared that I'll type in the :C/python38
.
Please reply me

Click on new, them paste your directory and save.