Hello World

Create a new directory called pyintro and open it in VS Code.

$ cd ~          # go to your home directory
$ mkdir pyintro # create a project directory
$ cd pyintro    # change the current directory
$ code .        # open VS Code

Create a new file add the following code to it:

File: hello_world.py

print("Hello, World!")

To execute this code, run the following command in the terminal:

$ conda activate pyintro # make sure you are in the right environment
$ python hello_world.py  # run the script

This should print

Hello, World!

to the terminal.

Congratulations, you have just written your first Python program!