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+# Learning Python3
+
+## What we'll learn
+
+You'll learn **three** things at the same time so don't get discouraged if it feels a bit much at the start.
+Everybody's issues will be in these three different domains and at the beginning it can be difficult to differentiate between them.
+Keep this in mind, everybody has to go through this stage and the *click* comes at different times for different people but everybody clicks at some point!
+The three new things you'll learn:
+
+1. the **concepts** of programming, most notably Object Orientated Programming (OOP)
+2. the **syntax** of one particular language, in our case Python3
+3. the **tools** needed to start programming in our language of choice
+
+Within each of these topics there are *subtopics* but there are not bottomless!
+Below is a small overview of how I would subdivide them.
+
+### Concepts
+
+The subtopics behind the concept of programming can be sliced (in no particular order) as follows:
+
+* objects
+* variables
+* conditional logic
+* functions
+* loops
+
+We've seen *four* of these topics before when we learned Bash scripting.
+The concept behind these topics is the same in both Bash and Python3, it's just *how* you write them that is different.
+This *how* is part of the **syntax** of the language.
+
+**Objects** aren't implemented in Bash as it's not an OOP language but there are [ways](https://hipersayanx.blogspot.com/2012/12/object-oriented-programming-in-bash.html) of doing object orientated programming in Bash.
+This is out of the scope of what we'll learn but I'm including the information to stress that OOP is more of a [concept](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/What-are-basic-Object-oriented-programming-concepts) than a feature of a particular language.
+
+### Syntax
+
+> In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the set of rules that defines the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured statements or expressions in that language.
+> This applies both to programming languages, where the document represents source code, and to markup languages, where the document represents data.
+> The syntax of a language defines its surface form.[1] Text-based computer languages are based on sequences of characters,
+
+The quote above is taken shamelessly from [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_(programming_languages)).
+
+Throughout this course you have already learned **two** different syntaxes.
+The first one you learned was **markdown** which you [master](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax) by now!
+The second one was Bash which, in my [opinion](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/sh-shell-scripts-have-an-ugly-syntax.76635/), is a pretty *ugly* syntax but very useful for quick and dirty scripts that modify a Linux system.
+A nice [cheatsheet](https://devhints.io/bash) outlines quite a bit of the Bash syntax.
+
+Python3 syntax shares similarities with Bash but is a lot more modern and designed to be human readable.
+A shared syntax similarity for example is the use of `# I'm a comment` to add comments to your code.
+A big difference is the use of *indented* blocks which are **mandatory** in Python3 and **optional** in Bash.
+I find [this](https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/bashing-the-bash-replacing-shell-scripts-with-python-d8d201bc0989) blogpost a very good analysis of how to think Bash versus Python3.
+
+### Tools
+
+Scripts are text files, plain and simple.
+So in order to **write** a Python3 script all we need is a text editor.
+Nano, vim, notepad++ all do a good job of editing plain text files but some make it *easier* than others.
+You've noticed that vim colors the code of a shell script no?
+This is one of the many **features** of an [IDE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment) and makes our life so much nicer when writing code.
+We'll come back to these features in a bit.
+
+In order to **run** Python3 code you need the Python3 interpreter.
+Just as with Bash, in order to run a Bash script you need to have Bash installed.
+This is because when you **execute** your script, the interpreter will **read and execute** each line of the text file **line by line**.
+
+Most people who want to write and run Python3 code, or any language for that matter, will install an Integrated Development Environment to do so.
+There are no *rules* as to what has to be included for a program to qualify as an IDE but in my opinion they should include:
+
+* syntax highlighting
+* autocomplete
+* *goto* commands such as goto definition, goto declaration, goto references
+* automatic *pair* opening and closing
+* builtin help navigation
+
+Our text editor of choice, `vim-nox` comes with some of these features and we can add more with plugins so vim can [become](https://dev.to/shahinsha/how-to-make-vim-a-python-ide-best-ide-for-python-23e1) an IDE if we want it to.
+To make the overall learning curve a bit less steep we'll start out with a more user friendly IDE, [pycharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/installation-guide.html).
+