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I am Learning Python 1 - Adding Environment Variable for Python in Windows 10 Home

I'm trying to learn Python this year (2018). The reasons are to explore its uses in data science, which is a skill that's becoming increasingly important since last 4-5 years. A disclaimer first - I'm not a programmer by profession and have taken some programming courses in college. But as saying goes these days - everybody's a programmer, either by choice or just have to pick up the skill. And it's a good skill to have! That's my motivation for learning Python. One of the first things I realized is that I need some online classes and a local environment to practice. The best resource for the online material is Python classes by Google, which you can access here . And the best version to learn (at least if you're reading this in 2018) is 2.7.x. If you want to try your hand at later versions, you can go ahead. You can download it here . Once you've installed it on Windows (I don't have a mac!) you would want to execute Python code from Window...