Friday Checkoff
When you’re ready, let an instructor or assistant know. Together you will go through the following check off steps:
- Start a new command prompt, and from that command prompt start Python 3. Then quit Python 3.
- Create a new Python file (with a
.py
extension). In that file, type the following and save the file. From a command prompt, navigate to this file and execute that Python script.
print("Hello world!")
- Open your text editor and press
Tab
. Use the left arrow key to go back in that line and show that your text editor is using spaces to indent, not tabs. - Test the Wordplay and ColorWall installations.
- Navigate to the Wordplay directory. Run the
words1.py
script from your computer’s terminal. You should see a list of words that have two consecutive letter u’s. - Navigate to the Colorwall directory. Run the
run.py
script from your computer’s terminal. You should see a grid with color animations that lasts about a minute.
- Navigate to the Wordplay directory. Run the
- Show the instructor a practice exercise that seemed particularly challenging and how you worked it out.