Chapter 1Getting Started

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Hello, and welcome. We love coding, and by the time you’re done with this book we think you will, too. We’re going to help you learn to code the way that we learned, by doing—no long lectures, no reading lots of instructions, and no drawn-out explanations. In every chapter you’ll get to do stuff, and you’ll learn while doing.

Except for this chapter, sorry. :-( Before you start developing your coding superpowers it’s really important to understand what coding actually is, so we’ll spend just a few minutes reviewing that. And then we’ll help you install the software you’ll need to get started. But, after that, it’s ...

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