excellent holistic thinkers have hard time with this sequencingand must pay extra attention when planning code if you are like thisbe patient and be prepared to ask for help where needed what to do after you finish an exercise is importanttoo the natural thing psychologicallyparticularly if you had struggleis to think"whewoutta here!!!!on something that came automatically or flowed smoothlythat is not big deal you will probably get it just as fast the next time if you had hard time and only eventually got to successyou may be doing yourself disservice with "whewoutta here!!!we have already mentioned how not everything is equally importantand some things are more important to keep in your head than others the same idea applies to all the steps in solving possibly long problem some parts were easysome were hardthere may have been several steps if all of that goes into your brain in one continuous stream of stuff that you remember at the same levelthen you are going to leave important nuggets mixed in with an awful lot of unimportant and basically useless information then the information is likely to all fade into oblivionor be next to impossible to cycle through looking for the useful nuggets why do the problem anyway if you are just going to bury important information further down in your brainwhat is importantthe most obvious thing you will need at higher level of recall is what just messed you upwhat you missed until doing this problemafter finishing the actual problemactively follow up and ask yourselfwhat did get in the end that was missing initiallywhat was the connection madedoes this example fit in to some larger idea/abstraction/generalization in way that did not see beforehow am going to look at this so can make similar connection in similar (or maybe only partly similarproblemis there kernel here that can think of as new tool in my bag of tricksyour answers to these questions are the most important things to take away from your recent hard work the extra consideration puts them more in the "prioritypart of your brainso you can really learn from your effort when you need the important ideas nextyou do not need to play through all the details of the stuff you did to solve the earlier problem keep coming back to this section and check up on your processit is really important the python interpreter and idlepart your python folder and python examples first you need to set up location to store your work and the example programs from this tutorial you can put the folder for your python programs most anywhere you like howeverfor it will be important that none of the directories leading down to your python folder contain any blanks in themin particular your home folder the normal place for you to have my examples folder is under your home folderwhich has the same name as your login id if you are just creating login idit will save some hassle in if your login id does not have space in it "andyor "anhor andyharringtonwould be fine for mebut "andy harringtonwould bomb the server in it is possible to do with folder outside your home folderas discussed at the beginning of folder for my examples download and save the python interpreter and idlepart