chapter_one Flashcards
You learn a bit about Python in general, the Sublime Text editor and other programming invironments as well as the Command Window.
How do you check if python is installed on your computer and which version?
1) by opening the command window / terminal
2) and typing “python” in lower case.
How do you exit python in the command / terminal window ?
1) “CTRL-Z” and “ENTER”
2) or type “exit()”
How should you name your folders
and files that contain Python projects?
1) Use lowercase letters
2) and underscores for spaces, because Python is using these naming conventions.
3) Save Program files with the “.py” extension
4) so Sublime Text can tell that it is working with Python code.
How do you run your program in Sublime Text?
1) Either manually by clicking “Tools” > “Build” in the menu
2) or by pressing “CTRL-B”
What is a traceback?
Why is it showing
and what does it display?
1) Its Pythons error report.
2) A traceback is a record of where the interpreter ran into trouble when trying to execute your code.
3) It displayes the line where an error has been found, the error type and some kind of error description.
What does IDE stand for?
1) integrated
2) development
3) environment
What functions does a Text editor
and an IDE have?
Why even use a Text edior?
Text editor:
1) simple tasks: highlighting your code’s structure, automating indenting, keyboard shortcuts
2) simple than IDE
3) puts a lighter load on your computer
IDE:
4) text editor with a number of included tools
5) an interactive debugger, code introspection, shows you common arguments for the code you are writing
How to convert “Tabs” to “Spaces” in Sublime Text Menu?
What do you do if you want to change your “Tabs” to “Spaces” in an allready existing file?
1) Click on “View” > “Indentation” in the menu.
2) Another way to get to this menu option is by clicking “Spaces” in the botom right of the file.
3) Activate “Indent Using Spaces” and make sure the “Tab Width” is set to “4”.
4) To change the “Tabs” to “Spaces” in an allready existing file, by doing the same thing described above.
How do you set the line lenght indicator in Sublime Text?
1) go to “View” > “Ruler”
2) and click “80”
Name 7 of the most common Text editors or IDEs.
1) IDLE
2) Geany
3) Emacs and Vim
4) Atom
5) Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
6) PyCharm
7) Jupyter Notebook
What do you do when you’re stuck?
1) 1. Assess your Situation:
2) What are you trying to do?»_space;> What have you tried so far?»_space;> What results have you been getting?
3) answer these questions as specific as possible»_space;> Talk to the duck!
4) 2. Try again
5) Go through the same steps again.
6) 3. Take a break
7) 4. Search Online
8) Stack Overflow; Official Pyton / Library Documentation; r/learnpython; Blog Posts; Internet Relay Chat (IRC); Discord
How do you navigate the terminal and how do you run python in it?
1) “dir” (directory) or “ls” (list)»_space;> shows the folders you can navigate into
2) “cd” (change directory)»_space;> allows you to navigate to a chosen folder (ex. cd Desktop)
3) to go back up the directory type “cd ..”
4) “D:”»_space;> lets you jump to other drives by typing the drives letter with colon
5) Then type “python” and the file you want to run (ex. python hello_world.py)
How do you display someting in the console with code?
Give an example.
1) print( )
2) everything in the bracket can be displayed.
3) print(“hello world!”)»_space;> hello world
Describe some of “IDLE”s characteristics.
1) Text editor
2) included with Python
3) for beginners
4) less intuitive than Sublime
Describe some of “Geany”s characteristics.
1) Text editor
2) simple but powerful
3) output displayed in terminal window
