What is the Python Shell?

Python is a text language for issuing instructions to control a computer. The python shell is a text-based, interactive interface. You type instructions into the python shell to trigger behaviours you choose. This can help you learn by issuing one instruction or group of instructions at a time then immediately seeing the result, like this…

Both your laptop and VGkits’ Vanguard board are computers which can be controlled by python, and which have a python shell.

You can use python to control your Vanguard board via…

You can use python to command a laptop…

Find out how to connect to the python shell on your Vanguard board.