Writing your first Python program (Hello World!).

Let's start with some simple code to get a simple output (the information the program gives to the user).

print("Hello World!")

output

Hello World!

You just learned your first command: the print statement. It says "Print out whatever's in my brackets". The print statement is how you get your program to put messages in the console.

• The " " (quotes) are used to tell the command that you're putting text in there (any text you want)
• A bunch of text (or whatever you put in quotes) is called a string.

Multiple Print Statements

Here is what multiple print statements looks like. 

print("Well we")

print("just use more lines")

print("of code")

output

Well we

just use more lines

of code

Use the triple quote """ if you want to write a big chunk of text with gaps or line breaks. 

print("""Anything that starts

with three quotes, and ends

in three quotes can span

many lines and even contain " symbols

within it without freaking anything out!""")

Output

Anything that starts
with three quotes, and ends
in three quotes can span
many lines and even contain " symbols
within it without freaking anything out!