Python Visualised - Tips & Tricks

This tutorial only shows the devices I think are most useful. There is always more to learn and explore in Python! Below are links to places where you can get more resources.

ALWAYS follow these 4 simple steps:

Comment your code. Anything to the right of # is commented out of your code, allowing you to plan stuff.
Keep it simple.
The computer does the heavy lifting, not you.
Use built-in functions, rather than writing functions yourself.

If you have a problem, the solution is probably on stackoverflow.
If you are running a standalone python script and you never see an output, make an input function at the end of the script.

Try different text editors or IDEs for a better programming experience. They are made by programmers for programmers.

Text editors are less taxing on the computer and give you less hand holding.

IDEs on the other hand tend to eat your computer resources, but give the most support a programmer could receive.

The built in IDE for Python is IDLE, which is very bare-bones IDE. It is good for learning but isn't the most productive. I recommend using VSCode on laptops, and using PyCharm on PCs.

Some text editors are:
Atom
Notepad++
Sublime Text

Some IDEs are:
VSCode
PyCharm
Eclipse