click releases under the download menuand look for the geany- setup exe installer or something similar run the installer and accept all the defaults to start your first programopen geanypress the windows key and search for geany on your system you should make shortcut by dragging the icon to your taskbar or desktop make folder called python_work somewhere on your system for your projects (it' best to use lowercase letters and underscores for spaces in file and folder namesbecause these are python naming conventions go back to geany and save an empty python file (file save ascalled hello_world py in your python_work folder the extension py tells geany that your file will contain python program it also tells geany how to run your program and to highlight the text in helpful way after you've saved your filetype the following lineprint("hello python world!"if the command python worked on your systemyou won' have to configure geanyskip the next section and move on to "running the hello world programon page if you needed to enter path like :\python \python to start python interpreterfollow the directions in the next section to configure geany for your system configuring geany to configure geanygo to build set build commands you should see the words compile and execute with command next to each the compile and execute commands start with python in lowercasebut geany doesn' know where your system stored the python command you need to add the path you used in the terminal session in the compile and execute commandsadd the drive your python command is on and the folder where the python command is stored your compile command should look something like thisc:\python \python - py_compile "%fyour path might be little differentbut make sure the spaces and capitalization match what is shown here your execute command should look something like thisc:\python \python "%fagainmake sure the spacing and capitalization in your execute command matches what is shown here figure - shows how these commands should look in geany' configuration menu getting started