writing your first application in this working with the integrated development environment (idlegetting started with idle writing the first application seeing how the first application works formatting your application code using comments effectively working with existing applications ending your idle session any people view application development as some sort of magic practiced by wizards called geeks who wave their keyboard to produce software both great and small howeverthe truth is lot more mundane application development follows number of processes it' more than strict procedurebut is most definitely not magic of any sort as arthur clark once noted"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic this is all about removing the magic from the picture and introducing you to the technology by the time you're finished with this you too will be able to develop simple application (and you won' use magic to do itas with any other taskpeople use tools to write applications in the case of pythonyou don' have to use toolbut using tool makes the task so much easier that you really will want to use one in this you use tool that comes with pythonthe integrated development environment (idlein the previous you use the command-line tool to play around with python little howeveridle goes further than the command line tool and makes it possible to write applications with greater ease