First Program

The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some definite differences between the languages.

Press Alt+ctrl+t to open the terminal and type
gedit welcome.py
in notepad enter the following code:

print "Hello World, Welcome to python";

save and close the file

to run a file in the terminal type  python welcome.py

 for python3 following is the code

print("Hello World, Welcome to python")

to run a file type python3 welcome.py