Starting up with Repl.it

Open your favorite internet browser (such as Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer) and go to https://repl.it. Scroll to the bottom of the page, look for languages, search for Python and click it.

You should see something like the following screen:

We will ignore some of the details on this screen, but we will go over some of the basics that show up. The main.py file contains code, or instructions for the computer to run. Anything that results from running the code will be displayed on the right side. This window is called the console.

Hit run and watch your console run your code on the screen to the right! In the example below, print tells the computer to print the sentence within the parentheses () into the console, or the screen on the right. Learn more about print in the next lessons.

Note: The RUN button looks like this: