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+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "#Python-Lectures"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "##Introduction"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Python is a modern, robust, high level programming language. It is very easy to pick up even if you are completely new to programming."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "##Installation"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Mac OS X and Linux comes pre installed with python. Windows users can download python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ .\n",
+    "\n",
+    "To install IPython run,\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    $ pip install ipython[all]\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "This will install all the necessary dependencies for the notebook, qtconsole, tests etc."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "###Installation from unofficial distributions"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Installing all the necessary libraries might prove troublesome. Anaconda and Canopy comes pre packaged with all the necessary python libraries and also IPython."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "####Anaconda"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Download Anaconda from https://www.continuum.io/downloads\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Anaconda is completely free and includes more than 300 python packages. Both python 2.7 and 3.4 options are available."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "####Canopy"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Download Canopy from https://store.enthought.com/downloads/#default\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Canopy has a premium version which offers 300+ python packages. But the free version works just fine. Canopy as of now supports only 2.7 but it comes with its own text editor and IPython environment."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "##Launching IPython Notebook"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "From the terminal\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    ipython notebook\n",
+    "\n",
+    "In Canopy and Anaconda, Open the respective terminals and execute the above."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "##How to learn from this resource?"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Download all the ipython notebooks from this repository https://github.com/rajathkumarmp/Python-Lectures\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Launch ipython notebook from the folder which contains the notebooks. Open each one of them\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    Cell > All Output > Clear\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "This will clear all the outputs and now you can understand each statement and learn interactively."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "##License"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 2",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python2"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 2
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython2",
+   "version": "2.7.10"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 0
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