Learn with steem || Code with Python IDE (Pydroid 3) "Lecture day 1" || @preye2

Hello Friends,

Programming is fun and interesting when our codes run effectively with no errors. Nevertheless, debugging of errors makes a programmer to understand and remember his/her codes easily, because mistakes usually makes us better and more informed.
It's always advisable to start from the basics, but for today's lecture, I would love to quickly run a small program that can be used to design shapes and pictures.

Programming may seem simple to some persons, while to others programming is very difficult. But if you ask me, I think it majorly depends on the programming language that is used. Because some programming languages are very much difficult to code with and to understand than others due to their different scripting patterns.

I would love to teach you guys how to code using Phyton Programming Language, because I think this is the best and most easy programming language to code with (especially for beginners) due to the fact that it is very similar to English, which means even a beginner can read and understand it's codes.

The only major challenge which I discovered about this programming language is that it takes its Spacing seriously. I mean a programmer could stay awake all night debugging, only to find out that there's an extra space in his code, which is why the program won't run. So basically, the solution is to be very careful while coding to avoid unnecessary errors.

One of the major reasons I love coding with Python is that it has an already prepared library where users can import and create wonderful results. For today's coding, I will be importing from the turtle Python module.

But before I continue I would love tell my students that you can code using your Android phone, it doesn't necessarily mean you must have a laptop💻 or desktop 🖥️. So to proof that, I will be using a Python programming IDE (Pydroid 3) which I will recommend for my students.

• You can easily get the Pydroid 3 IDE on Google Play Store

• And after installing it, you can open it

• As you can see, the GUI is clear and understandable, like on the top right hand corner(3 dots) you would see that they is Undo, Redo, Search, and the Go to line.

As a programmer you should know that these tools are very important during coding/debugging.

• On the bottom part, you could see the various symbols used in programming, which are very familiar to humans. Like the =,<>,;,:"" and so on....

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So without wasting time I would like to write a short and simple code that would perform the task of designing something really beautiful for us..

My first line of code will be to import the turtle graphic design which has already been prepared in the Python library. So I typed "import turtle" on the first line.

For the second line, I am giving turtle a function, so I can say let Steemit be the turtle. In coding, I will say "steemit = turtle.Turtle()" after that I click enter to proceed to line 3.

So line 3 would basically be about the speed of my design(for moving images), which I would set as "9". In coding it's "steemit.speed (9)", and I proceed to line 4.

I want to give my design a color of my choice, so I would go for blue my favourite color. In coding it's "steemit.color ('blue')" then I proceed to line 5.

This is where I would give that actual command, and tell the program what to do

So I want my program to draw and design a circle-like image going anti-clockwise, and so I gave the program that instructions using the code "for i in range (50):
steemit.circle(150)
steemit.left (50)" and we are done.

So it's time for me to test-run my program to see if it would detect any error. So I click on the play button.

As you can see our program is running smoothly, and every programmer would be happy to see a positive response from his code.

I could add extra colors if I so desire or better still I could change the color, see example below(changed to green):

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Coding is really very interesting and broad, which means we learn new things everyday as we code. This is just a demo of what I would be giving to my students, as I urge you guys to follow and try out this course, it will really be interesting and I promise you would learn alot from my class.
We really need this, because there are lots of jobs out there for programmers, and we would'nt learn everything in school, so I would be dropping something really awesome in my next class, and I would want to see some seriousness in my students. Please this is Steemit, and we are here to learn, so you are free to ask me any kind of question you so desire in the comment section, am here for you.

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I would be very glad if we download the Pydroid 3 IDE and explore the code. Thanks you for your time here ❤️..

Note: All pictures and screenshots are taken by me on the Pydroid 3 IDE.

Steem to the world💯.....