note that the exampleslike this version of the tutorialare for python there were major changes to python in version making it incompatible with earlier versions if you are using python version for some good reasonyou should continue with the older version of the tutorial go to once you have the examples zip archiveyou need to extract the files make file browser window set to the directory where you put the zip file thenwindows right click on examples zipselect extract all this will create the folder examples end up with file browser window showing the contents of the examples folder this will be your python folder in later discussion mac double click on the zip file and the expanded examples folder appears warningon windowsfiles in zip archive can be viewed while they are still in the zip archive modifying and adding files is not so transparent be sure that you unzip the archive and work from the regular directory that holds the resulting unzipped files you also have the option of downloading an archive containing the web version of the tutorial examples the local file to open in your browser in in the handsonhtml folder you unzipped and the main web page file to open is called index html the pdf version of the tutorial for printing like html version running sample program this section assumes python is already on your computer windows does not come with python (to load python see obtaining python for your computer (page before getting to the individual details of pythonyou will run simple text-based sample program find madlib py in your python folderset up in your python folder and python examples (page notedifferent keyboards label the key for ending line differentlywindows keyboards may use enter while mac keyboards use return the tutorial may intermix instructions to press enter or press return they both are intended to mean the key for ending line options for running the programif you have trouble with the following optionsopening the program in idle is discussed in starting idle (page in windowsyou can display your folder contentsand double click on madlib py to start the program on macyou can control-click on madlib py in the finderselect open withand choose the python launcher for your python version when you are done with the programclose the terminal window in linux you may be able to open terminal windowchange into your python examples directoryand enter the command python madlib py or possibly to distinguish python and beginning with python