- What You Should See
- Study Drills
- Common Student Questions
- The Blue Plus
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Common Student Questions
These are actual questions that real students have asked when doing this exercise:
Can I use IDLE? No, for now just use Jupyter and later we’ll use a regular text editor for extra superpowers.
Editing the code in Jupyter is annoying. Can I use a text editor? Totally, you can also create a Python file in Jupyter and get a “good enough” editor. In the left panel where you see all your files, click the blue + (plus) button on the top left. That will bring you to the first screen you saw when you started Jupyter. Down at the bottom under $_ Other you’ll see a button for Python File with the Python logo. Click that and you’ll get an editor to work on your file.
My code doesn’t run; I just get the prompt back with no output. You most likely took the code in my cell literally and thought that print("Hello World!") meant to type only "Hello World!" into the cell, without the print. Your cell has to be exactly like mine.