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So Python actually gives us a text
editor that we can use as well.

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It's not the best text editor around and

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I recommend that you use something more
substantial like Sublime Text or PyCharm.

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But if you're just starting out it's okay.

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So in your applications folder there
should be a new folder that's called

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Python 3.5, or 3.4, or whatever.

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And inside there will be this
little thing that's called IDLE.

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And IDLE is the editor
that we're going to use.

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It's an okay way to play
around with the language.

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We're just gonna double click IDLE.

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And for me it pops up on the other
screen and this is what IDLE looks like.

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Super duper fancy, right?

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So by default it opens up a shell window.

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So inside here you do things
like print("hello world") and

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it prints out hello world.

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This is just like running
Python in your terminal.

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Probably not the kind of thing you're
gonna want to do all the time.

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So we're gonna go to File, and
we're going to go to New File.

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And that gives us, well, a new file.

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IDLE doesn't give us line numbers,
anything like that.

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Down here in the corner, we get line and
column, so you can see, no, I hit 80,

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but that's really kind of about it.

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There's not a whole lot here,
as you can see.

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If you look in preferences,

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there's a little bit of stuff
you can poke around with.

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If you wanna change your font,
make it a little bit bigger.

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I generally prefer a bigger font.

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Then you can do that.

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You can change your highlighting
scheme if you want.

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You can change which keys do what thing.

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And you can tell it if
you want an edit window,

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which is the text editor window, or
a shell window and things like that.

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So you can give it some rules on things
you want it to do, but you don't have to.

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So there's not a whole lot.

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IDLE's kind of underpowered,
but you know we could do like,

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for num in range(10), print(num ** 2).

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And we hit Command S,
it's gonna ask us where to save it.

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We can also go up here to Run,
and say Run Module.

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And it's gonna ask us where to save it.

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And let's just say idle_test,
and we'll save that.

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And we run it and
it runs it in our shell over here.

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And so here's our squares
from zero through nine..

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So it's nothing super duper complex is it?

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We save it, we can run it with F5, anytime
you press F5 it runs it all over again.

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Now it's kinda cool though,
I mean it's kinda nice just having this.

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But like I said it's not the best editor.

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I'll put links to other popular Python
editors in the teacher's notes.

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And look out for a workshop on
PyCharm coming up, really soon.

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So for right now though,
I am going to go ahead and quit IDLE.