getting started with python appear in the terminal right after the command if you are using an ideit is essentially an editor and an ipython/terminal window combined for instancein the popular spyder ide the editor is usually in the upper left windowwhile the window in the lower right corner is the ipython window where you run the program although the "helloworld!"-program could seem like silly exampleit serves number of useful purposes first of allrunning this small program will verify that you have installed python properlyand that you have installed the right version it also introduces the function printwhich will be used virtually every time we programand it illustrates how we use quotes to define string in python while print is word that python understandsthe words "helloand "worldare not by using the quoteswe tell python that it should not try to understand (or interpretthese wordsbutrathertreat them as simple text thatin this caseis to be printed to the screen we will come back to this topic in more detail later different ways to use python as briefly mentioned abovepython offers some alternatives to the traditional style of programming using text editor and terminal windowand some of these alternatives can be very useful when learning to program for instancewe can use python interactively by simply typing python or ipython in terminal windowwithout subsequent file name this will open an environment for typing and running python commandswhich is not very suitable for writing programs over several linesbut extremely useful for testing python commands and statementsor simply using python as calculator in regular terminal window on macos or linuxan interactive version of the helloworldexample would look something like terminal terminalipython python (defaultmar : : type 'copyright''creditsor 'licensefor more information ipython -an enhanced interactive python in [ ]print("helloworld!"helloworldin [ ]the two versions python and ipython work largely the same waybut ipython has number of additional features and is recommended for detailsseefor instance