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.

Python has a way to convert one type of data to another. For example, turning a number into a string to print it, or converting user input (which is always a string) into an integer for calculations.

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.