This web site hosts the main help documentation for the PyCalc app. But there are other forms of help available as well.

Guided Tour

PyCalc offers an in-app guided tour to help you learn about some of the basic app features. To initiate it, go to the Settings menu and click the Start guided tour button. PyCalc still works (mostly) normally while the guided tour is running, so feel free to try out the features as the tour introduces them. Once the tour is started, you can stop it at any time with the Skip Tour button.

Python Interpreter Help

The Python interpreter contains an extensive help system. Try typing help() to see a summary. From there, you can access help for any specific Python object by typing (for instance) help(log10) to see help on the log10 function.

Another way of learning about the system is with the dir() command. Type dir() to see a list ("directory") of all the objects the interpreter knows about. Details for specific objects can be found by typing (for instance) dir(1) to see what objects are attached to the number 1.

Note that these features (help() and dir()) exist completely indpendently of PyCalc — they are part of the Python language itself.

Online Python Help

There are countless resources online for learning about the Python language. Examples include:

• The Python Software Foundation web site
• Youtube videos
• a Google Search will return an endless list of online resources, such as:
  • Let's Learn Python