Watch the following video, and do the examples shown in the video as they are demonstrated.
Assignment
There is no assignment for this tutorial.
Notes from the video
File > New Window is used to open the editor window from the interactive window.
Note that raw_input() was used instead of input() in this video. This is so strings can be enterd, versus numbers.
The keyboard short F5 can be used in Idle to run your program.
raw_input("Press <enter>") can be used to pause the program before closing.