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Countless books, interactive web tutorials, and developer boot camps promise to turn ambitious beginners into software engineers with six-figure salaries. This book is not for those people. It’s for everyone else.
Programming is simply the act of entering instructions for the computer to perform.
The name Python comes from the surreal British comedy group Monty Python, not from the snake. Python programmers are affectionately called Pythonistas, and both Monty Python and serpentine references usually pepper Python tutorials and documentation.
Like solving a Sudoku puzzle, writing programs involves breaking down a problem into individual, detailed steps.
Programming is a creative task, somewhat like constructing a castle out of LEGO bricks.
You’ll remember the things you do much better than the things you only read.
Variable names are case-sensitive, meaning that spam, SPAM, Spam, and sPaM are four different variables. It is a Python convention to start your variables with a lowercase letter.
