py thon basics the python programming language has wide range of syntactical constructionsstandard library functionsand interactive development environment features fortunatelyyou can ignore most of thatyou just need to learn enough to write some handy little programs you willhoweverhave to learn some basic programming concepts before you can do anything like wizard in trainingyou might think these concepts seem arcane and tediousbut with some knowledge and practiceyou'll be able to command your computer like magic wand and perform incredible feats this has few examples that encourage you to type into the interactive shellalso called the repl (read-evaluate-print loop)which lets you run (or executepython instructions one at time and instantly shows you the results using the interactive shell is great for learning what basic python instructions doso give it try as you follow along you'll remember the things you do much better than the things you only read