You can type a bit of Python code into the interactive window and press Enter to immediately see the result, hence the name interactive.Ġ1:08 When the window opens up, it’ll display this same text at the beginning. You can see this name up here, IDLE Shell.Ġ0:55 It’s a textual user interface used to interact with the Python language. IDLE’s interactive window contains a Python shell. So in my case, I have several versions of Python here, and I’m going to choose Python 3.10 and double-click on the IDLE app. You can find it in the folder that the application was installed in. All right, let’s take a look at the interactive window.Ġ0:31 If you don’t already have IDLE open, then go ahead and open it. Then the editor window, which is where you actually write scripts and programs that you’ll save and run later. The first is called the interactive window, and I’ll share that in just a second. It’s called IDLE, which stands for Integrated Development and Learning Environment.Ġ0:13 It has two main windows, and you’ll spend some time in both of them.

It’s time to get started writing your Python script.Ġ0:05 You’re going to be using a program that comes with your installation of Python.

Programs to write python