Chapter 1. Why Python?
Figure 1.1. Python.org’s download page
Figure 1.2. Are you sure you want to run this strange program from the internet? Yes!
Figure 1.3. Install Python for all users.
Figure 1.4. Choose Python’s location.
Figure 1.5. Choose which bits of Python you want.
Figure 1.6. Installing Python
Figure 1.7. Hooray! Python’s installed!
Figure 1.8. Here’s where Notepad lives.
Figure 1.9. The test program for Python
Figure 1.10. Save your test program to the desktop.
Figure 1.11. Run your script by double-clicking it.
Figure 1.12. Where the Windows command line lives
Figure 1.13. Windows doesn’t know where Python is!
Figure 1.14. Looking in your computer’s properties
Figure 1.15. Editing your system properties
Figure 1.16. Opening the PATH variable
Figure 1.17. Adding Python to your PATH variable
Figure 1.18. Success! Now Windows knows where Python is.
Figure 1.19. The permissions window for hello_world.py
Figure 1.20. Choosing what to do with your program
Figure 1.21. Your test program running in a terminal window under Ubuntu Linux
Figure 1.22. Setting the command in a launcher
Figure 1.23. Setting the new Python path properly
Figure 1.24. Setting the default action for Python files
Figure 1.25. Setting the Python Launcher as the default app
Chapter 2. Hunt the Wumpus
Figure 2.1. This isn’t a very fun game.
Figure 2.2. Adding cave 3 to your network
Figure 2.3. That’s much better!
Chapter 3. Interacting with the world
Figure 3.1. The four possibilities for differences between files