Computer maker Raspberry Pi has launched a new introductory course to help young coders get to grips with the Python programming language.

Interested in learning Python? Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file.

Read chapter 12 from the book Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language by Mark Summerfield. This chapter is an excerpt from Programming in Python 3: A Complete ...