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This chapter gives a brief background of Python and then goes on to illustrate Python programming using an Interactive Development Environment (IDE). Python is an interpreted computer programming language in which you can enter code instructions one at a time or as part of a larger program, which comprises many instructions. Throughout this book, illustrations of entering and executing Python code provide hands-on experience and familiarity with programming in Python. The Python code examples begin in this chapter with writing and running a sample instruction of Python code that prints a simple message to the screen. At the end of the chapter, we introduce the two real-world, large-scale data sets that we will use throughout the book. These data sets embody many different types of data and are well suited for the data analysis and visualization covered in later chapters.