# Python programming tutorial

[Python](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_\(programming_language\))
is a high-level, interactive and object-oriented programming language.
Its simple syntax makes it easy to learn and fast to work with, so it's
a great choice for a first programming language.

No tutorial is good for everyone. This one 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
probably want to read
[the official tutorial](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/) instead.

This tutorial uses Python 3. Python 2 is getting outdated all the time,
and more and more projects are moving to Python 3. There are a few
popular libraries that don't support Python 3 that well at the time of
writing this, but you don't need to worry about that just yet. They
will probably support Python 3 by the time you've learned the basics
and you may actually need them.

Here's a list of chapters in this tutorial. Read them one by one in the
order they are listed. **If you jump to a chapter without reading
everything before it, you will probably have hard time understanding
it.**

1. [Quick introduction to this tutorial](introduction.md)
2. [Installing Python](installing-python.md)
3. [Getting started with Python](getting-started.md)
4. [ThinkPython: The way of the program](the-way-of-the-program.md)
5. [Variables, Booleans and None](variables.md)
6. [Using functions and storing code in files](using-functions.md)
7. [If, elif, else and while](if.md)
8. [ThinkPython: Lists](lists.md)

Other things this tutorial comes with:

- [Getting help](getting-help.md)
- [Contact me](contact-me.md)

I'm Akuli and I have written most of this tutorial, but the following
people have helped me with it:
- [SpiritualForest](https://github.com/SpiritualForest): Lots of typing
    error fixes.
- [theelous3](https://github.com/theelous3): Small improvements and fixes.

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You may use this tutorial at your own risk. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).