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Now.

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Let's get started, shall we?

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In order for any programmer to learn a language, there are four key things that you need to really

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master for any sort of language, including Python.

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First are the terms of that language.

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Sometimes a programming language has different words and different definitions for these words that

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you're going to have to memorize things like statements, variables, instantiation.

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Really complicated sounding words.

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But you need to understand what they mean so that you can talk to other programmers.

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You also need to learn about a languages data type.

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That is, what sort of data can a program hold?

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You can think of it as a values.

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Just like in real life, we have different ways to represent values like numbers, letters and symbols.

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In programming, we have these data types to store information, and each programming language has different

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sort of data types.

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Next, we need to learn about actions at the end of the day.

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All programming is is a way for us to tell our machines, Hey, store this data and then retrieve this

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data and perform some action on it.

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That's all it is, just using memory and performing some actions.

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So we're going to learn how to perform those actions.

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And then finally, we have to learn the best practices of each language.

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There's good ways of writing Python code, and then there's bad ways so that when we build our applications,

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our programs, well, we don't have a leaning tower like this, but we have a solid structure and a

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solid program.

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So throughout the course, we're going to learn about these things.

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But keep this in mind, these four things are what you need to become a good programmer, and I want

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to start the basic Python section with the data types.

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So let's get started.