at the top of the windowyou can see the version of python that is running and some information about the operating system if you see version less than then you may need to revisit the installation instructions in the previous section the symbol that you see is called prompt whenever you see thisit means that python is waiting for you to give it some instructions interactive quiz this comes with free online quiz to check your learning progress you can access the quiz using your phone or computer at the following web addressrealpython com/quizzes/pybasics-setup now that you have python installedlet' get straight into writing your first python programgo ahead and move on to ubuntu linux follow these steps to install python and open idle on ubuntu linux important the code in this book is tested only against python installed as described in this section be aware that if you have installed python through some other meanssuch as anaconda pythonyou may encounter problems when running some of the code examples