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+# 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
+
+The concept behind these topics are the same in most languages, it's just *how* you write them that is different.
+This *how* is part of the **syntax** of the 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)).
+
+## Tools
+
+### Writing code
+
+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?
+One of the many features of an [IDE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment) is *syntax highlighting*.
+It colors things such as [keywords](https://realpython.com/python-keywords/) which makes our life so much nicer when writing code.
+We'll come back to these features in a bit.
+
+### Running code
+
+In order to **run** Python3 code you need the Python3 interpreter.
+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
+
+There is a plethora of IDE's available and you can't really make a *wrong* choice here, but to make the overall learning curve a bit less steep we'll start out with a user friendly IDE, [pycharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/installation-guide.html).
+
+# The python3 shell
+
+TODO animated overview of the shell and the world of OOP
+
+# Installing pycharm
+
+TODO
+
+# Your first project
+
+TODO helloworld
+
+## Simple printing
+
+## String formatting
+
+## String replacement
+
+# Taking input
+
+TODO say hello program
+
+## Functions can return something
+
+# Taking input and evaluation
+
+TODO say hello plus ask for age
+
+## Conditional logic  
+
+## Class string methods
+
+# Coding challenge - Celsius to Fahrenheit converter
+
+# Creating your own functions 
+
+TODO pretty_print
+
+## Functions that *do* something
+
+## Functions that *return* something
+
+# Writing your first library
+
+TODO import pretty print
+
+## What are libraries?
+
+## How do we write libraries?
+
+## What is `__name__ == "__main__"`?
+
+# Using the standard library
+
+TODO import random exercise
+
+