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-: Now, let's get started, shall we?

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In order for any programmer to learn a language,

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there are four key things that you need to really master,

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for any sort of language, including Python.

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First are the terms of that language.

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Sometimes a programming language has different words

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and different definitions for these words

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that you're going to have to memorize.

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Things like statements, variables, instantiation,

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really complicated sounding words,

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but you need to understand what they mean

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so that you can talk to other programmers.

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You also need to learn about a language's data type.

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That is,

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what sort of data can a program hold?

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You can think of it as values.

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Just like in real life,

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we have different ways to represent values

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like numbers, letters, and symbols,

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in programming, we have these data types

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to store information.

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And each programming language

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has different sort of data types.

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Next, we need to learn about actions.

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At the end of the day,

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all programming is,

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is a way for us to tell our machines,

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hey, store this data,

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and then retrieve this data,

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and perform some action on it.

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That's all it is,

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just using memory and performing some actions.

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So we're going to learn how to perform those actions.

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And then finally,

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we have to learn the best practices of each language.

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There's good ways of writing Python code,

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and then there's bad ways,

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so that when we build our applications, our programs,

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well, we don't have a leaning tower like this,

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but we have a solid structure and a solid program.

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So throughout the course,

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we're gonna learn about these things.

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But keep this in mind.

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These four things are what you need

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to become a good programmer.

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And I wanna start the basic Python section

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with the data types.

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So let's get started.