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# Types of Python Programs

With Python, you can create four main types of programs. In the beginning, you will work on the first type, Scripts. Just know there are ways to expand your skills into these other types of applications.

### Scripts

These are scripts that run in your console and provide basic text output. These scripts will run at your command prompt and output text into the terminal / console.

### Graphical Programs

Not as common as scripts, it is possible to write screens that show up in Windows and have animations for basic games, graphs, etc.

### Jupyter Pages

These are basically web pages that have sections of Python code built in. It allows people to execute the code fragments within the page. They are common for financial or statistical apps.

### Web Pages

You can write entire websites using Python. There is a couple ways of doing this. Basically it's an Python environment that generates web pages on the fly. You can make shopping carts or whatever type of website you need.

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