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type: module
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title: "First Light"
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description: "Your first Python — REPL, scripts, variables, and the syntax to write small real programs."
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---
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# First Light
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Bash and Git got you off the ground. Now we put a real programming
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language in your hands. Python is small enough to learn fast and big
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enough to power half the systems running in production right now.
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Ten blocks. About four and a half hours.
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## What You'll Do
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- Print your first Python output
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- Use the interactive REPL
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- Run a `.py` script
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- Declare variables of every basic type
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- Read input from a cadet, transform it, print it back
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- Write a small calculator
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## Pace
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About 4.5 hours. After this you'll know enough Python syntax to
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write real programs in the next module.
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