Tutorial for learning basic Python for Windows

• Download and install Python3
• Download and install VSCode
• Download and install Git
  • select VSCode as the default editor, leave other options as default
• Start VSCode or restart if already open to load Git integration
• Click the graph icon on the left-hand navigation bar
• Click the clone repository button that appears
• Enter https://github.com/limscoder/py-learn as the repository to clone

• Select terminal->new terminal from the VSCode menu bar to open a terminal within VSCode
• Run the following commands in the terminal
  • > python .\bin\get-pip.py
  • > python -m pip install -U matplotlib

• Click the document icon on the left-hand navigation bar
• Open the src/main.py file and install Python extension when prompted
  • you may need to restart VSCode after installing the Python extension
• Select the run->run without debugging option from the VSCode menu bar
• You can also run the application from the terminal
  • > python .\src\main.py

• Make some changes to the code and save the file(s)
• Create an account on github.com
• Configure git user (in terminal)
  • > git config --global user.name "Your Name"
  • > git config --global user.email "{email-you-used-for-github}"
• Browse to https://github.com/limscoder/py-learn
• Click the fork button in the upper right hand corner to copy the repository to your personal account
• Add your fork (in terminal)
  • > git remote add forked https://github.com/{github-username}/py-learn.git
• Save your changes (in terminal)
  • > git add .
  • > git commit -m "describe what you changed"
• Upload your changes to github (in terminal)
  • > git push forked HEAD:master