Hi. First, such topics should be posted in developers room. And about your problem. You need to download the installer first(I recommend download the 32 bit version even if you are using 64 bit). Then install it. Make sure you check the tickbox that says add python to path or something like that. Then after installation you can type python yourscript.py into the command prompt or windows powershell console to run your programs. Replace yourscript with the name of your script. Could be anything like game.py, script.py etc. There's also a good tutorial resource on tutorials point website. Just google it and you'll find it. There are others like how to think like a computer scientist, etc. Googling python tutorial gives you the best results

Hi there.
Agreed with kianoosh, I recommend installing 32 bit version as well.
I am using 8.1 as well.
Then once you download the installer, go in your downloads folder, and open the setup file.
You can do the customized installation and you might want to leave everything checked in the first step
In the second step it'll ask you whether you want to add python path to your environment, you might want to leave that checked aswell, and it'll ask you where to put the python directory. Hope I explained well.

There's some good advice up there already.  You should have python 3.6 or whatever in your programs start menu and some tutorials will suggest you use the ide or idle that is the python development environment.  I took the simple advice of using windows powershell as suggested above and I have never regretted it.  I also simply used notepad to get started and now my programs are exceeding 4000 lines I still use notepad.  Once you find a tutorial you like, you will fly along.  Post up whatever you find the most useful, it will help other beginners.

sorry for double posting.
At some point you might want to look the docs as well which are in the pythondirectory/doc, so that you can have the references for modules, or just seeing the new things that are in the python release that you're using.

Hey guys, thanks so much for the advice on using notepad instead of idle. I wouldn't be able to find that anyway, but I'm sure I'll be able to find notepad eventually. I'm glad you're helping me so much because honestly I'm extremely nervous about learning to code, in fact so much so that I'm even beginning to wonder if I've even got the brain power to even learn to do it correctly since math is a four letter swear word in my house. I mean I have never ever been able to really pick it up. Not algebra, calculus or trig. I had to have a tutor to hold both my hands and walk me through it. Does that tell you all how stupid I really am? I will try this though, but I won't promise anything. All I can tell you for certain is that I've got a regular traffic jam of game ideas up here in my brain and it makes me sad that I can't make them come to fruition. Finally, I've been on the tutorials point website but for some reason I can't do a search for python. It doesn't seem to be very accessible with Jaws. I'll keep trying though. Have a wonderful day and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Since I'm wanting to make different kinds of simulation games, farming games and eventually our own virtual world. I give you that outline because I'd like to know what kinds of games to start out with that are small in nature and easy to build. I've often been told to build games that are small but that revolve around the kinds of games that I would eventually like to build in the future. Have a wonderful day and I hope to hear from you soon.

Hey there Paul, karate25 here. Yep, that's exactly the tutorial I found on there. Thanks a bunch for showing it to me though and I honestly am feeling just a little bit better about trying to learn python. Incidentally, another type of development environment for writing in python is something called py charm. Have anyone on here used that? I've heard that the py charm community addition is good to use since it has a debugger and everything you'll need to write your code. Is that one accessible? finally, I've tried writing a hello world program, and just for fun, I've been doing it in python itself and I either get an indentation error that says unexpected indent, or an invalid syntax error if I try to rewrite it again. Here's how I'm writing it. print ("Hello Python!") have a wonderful day and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

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about pycharm, no I don't use it.
Here's something I'll explain about indentation, because I too, got stuck on it for a while
You use indentation for separating blocks.
A block is a group of code. If you learned BGT before or any c based language a block is a group of code between braces.
when you are at the starting of a script until you define an if, or a loop your indentation doesn't need to have spaces.
so your function should be like this:
print("hello python")
I'm sorry, this might sound a bit complicated though, but hope you understood me.

Notepad++ takes time to load? pops up instantly for me.

Hey there guys, karate25 here again. I really think I'm going to have fun with python now that I know how to print text without any errors. I've graduated from hello python to let's all beat the crap outa barney. Now I can move on to learning other things with python now. Like how in the world do I save a file in notepad and then ask python to run it? by the way, I'm saving my practice files on my thumb drive so that I'll be able to retrieve them more easily. I'm saving them in my music folder on my thumb drive by the way. So how would I ask python to run my programs? I can't press the alt key to bring up menues to run programs or anything like that but maybe it's just something so small that I'm missing it. Your take away message with all of this is that I think I've finally found a programming language that will work for me. I'm not getting overly excited yet but I'm very cautiously optimistic about my ability to learn and grasp python. I can see why it's a popular language and easy to pick up and learn. Have a wonderful day to you all and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yup notepad++ is a bit slow for me as well. I mean it's someway that i don't like it don't know how ti discribe it. It takes time to load when i start it for the first time after i log on into windows, And it might happen if I don't use it for a long time and try to reload it again. Plus, Notepad++ have some things that i don't like, For instance every empty square is spoke "blank" which i don't like. I think it spoke linefeeds blank as well.

Yeah its basic computer usage, you should know it, but I would recommend you type cmd, and do your python filename.py from there, because when it tracebacks, and it will, if you do it your way, you'll never see it, it will run, traceback, then since it has nothing else to do, it will just close. This way, it won't.

Hey there Ronand, karate25 here. Thanks a lot for that guidance and advice. I found a link to both books called a byte of python and how to think like a computer scientist in the developer's room so I am definitely going to get my hands on both of those and read them and practice with them. I've read the reviews on a byte of python and I've read that some people after reading that book have actually begun building their own small games which I think is pretty cool. Although I fully understand and accept that I might not get to that point right away and I'm willing to work and learn how to get to get to that point. I'm going to let you know now that most if not all of my stuff will be free to play since I'm not really doing this for the money both since there's really not much of it to be made with audio games, but also because after 15 years I've finally managed to round myself up some employment that's relatively stress free and is able to be done completely from home so I'll be able to learn python and eventually make games if I reach that point. The other reason I'm not planning on charging for my games is quite frankly I'm doing it strictly for the enjoyment and the knowledge that I'll be bringing unique and new kinds of games to our community hopefully ones that haven't been done before. Virtual life, simulations and hopefully eventually a virtual world.