Setting up your Raspberry Pi Zero for Python programming

Before we get started, let's go ahead and set up the Raspberry Pi Zero to suit our needs:

1. Let's add a shortcut to IDLE3 (for developing in Python 3.x) on the Raspberry Pi's desktop. Under the Programming submenu (located at the top-left corner of your Raspberry Pi Zero's desktop), right-click on Python 3 (IDLE) and click on Add to desktop. This adds a shortcut to the IDLE tool on your desktop thus making it easily accessible.

Add shortcut to IDLE3 to the Raspberry Pi's desktop

2. In order to save all the code samples, let's go ahead and create a folder named code_samples on the Raspberry Pi's desktop. Right-click on your desktop and create a new folder.