Get a professional Python environment running and understand where this course is taking you.

Key topics

• Installing Python 3.12 on Windows, macOS and Linux; verifying with python --version.
• pip: installing, upgrading and listing packages.
• Virtual environments with venv: create, activate, deactivate, why isolation matters.
• VSCode setup: Python extension, interpreters, running and debugging scripts, the integrated terminal.
• Running scripts: python app.py, the REPL, and if __name__ == "__main__".
• Developer roadmap: syntax basics → data structures → functions → OOP → files/exceptions → packages → testing → web APIs (FastAPI) → databases (SQL) → Odoo framework.

Exercise / deliverable

Install Python 3.12 and VSCode, create a virtual environment sdtekh-env, and run a script hello.py that prints your name, Python version and the path of the active interpreter.