Our first program

‘Hello World’ - its a tradition

Lets create a simple program that will display the message ‘Hello World’¹.

First, here is the code, type this into your Python editor:

print ('Hello World!')

When we run this, we will see the following printed to our screen (also refered to as the console):

Hello World!

As you can see this is a very simple piece of code. The word print is a special word that Python understands. Python expects a line of text between the brackets, inside of the speech marks.

Notice that the print command is in lowercase; typing Print or PRINT will result in an error message.

We call this case sensitive; we need to ensure that the commands we type are in the correct case for Python to work properly.