Tonight is simple, you need to install the program we used today in class. Python.
Head over to http://www.python.org/ and go in to the Download's Section. The page will detect automatically if you are on a Mac or on Windows. You want to install version 3.3 (not the 2.X version)
(Note: if you are Windows, you need to know if you are on an x64 or x86 windows install. Typically older comps will be x86, newer ones are x64. You can try either one to see which one works)
Because you are installing a program, confirm with your parents that this is an assignment for class, so you don't get in trouble.
You only task is to install Python tonight, play with it for 15 minutes, and take a "Screenshot" of the IDLE window once it's up and running.
A screenshot is a snapshot, a picture, of whatever is displayed on your screen.
To PROVE you go it installed and working, in Python, run a command where you print more than one string together. Something like print("Sam " + "did " + "it).
Then take a screenshot of your computer. Save the File (as a JPG or a GIF or PNG is fine) and put it in your Google Doc share folder.
If you don't know how to do this, http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/ will give you some easy keyboard commands to take the picture!
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If you have difficulty figuring out my directions, these are the ones Anu wrote for me today:
In order to install python on your home computer please do the following:
1) Go to python.org
2) Move cursor to the "Download" Tab; select your OS (i.e. Windows for Win7 or XP)
3) Click on the Latest Python 3 Release - Python 3.35rc1
4) On the next page scroll down to the Download section and select the download based off your system type.
To find your system type, open up the start menu, scroll over and right click on "Computer" then click on "Properties" and look for "System type." If your system type is 64-bit operating system, then on the python you would download the "Windows X86-64 MSI Installer"
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