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Hello and welcome to Python for Everybody.

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First and foremost, thank you for taking my course,

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I appreciate that. There are other Python courses out there,

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and you've decided to take a chance on my course,

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and I just want to say I appreciate that.

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With that said, I have a couple of rules that can help you

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ask questions better,

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and the reason I'm bringing this up is because if you ask

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a question, I want to give you a good answer in a timely

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manner. So the first rule is, please write your questions

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clearly. So ask what your question is,

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but if it's about a certain problem, make sure you describe

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what that problem is, or if it's about a certain piece of

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code, make sure you reference what that certain code is.

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The second rule is, if you are going to share code, please

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make sure that the code is formatted.

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If you format it, then I can simply copy and paste it into

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my command line or into a Python file, and I can run it very,

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very quickly and get you an answer very, very quickly.

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You can use a service like 'PasteBin', or if the comments

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down below allow you to, you can also use code formatting in there.

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The third rule that I would like to put out there, and it's

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actually not really a rule,

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it's more of a guideline,

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but the third one is always provide your version of Python

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Python, every new version of Python comes with new features,

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and so if you're trying to use a feature on an older version

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of Python, it helps me to know which version you're using.

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And if you don't know, you can always open up your command

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line and you can type 'python -V', and it will tell you something

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like 3.7.2

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So if you could please provide your version of Python as

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well, that just helps me with debugging a little faster.

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And last but not least, if you're asking a question about

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a particular video or something you saw in a video, if you

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could please tell me which video you're referencing and which

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time you're referring to in that video.

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I have a few videos that are upwards to 15 minutes long,

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so if you're talking about a particular video, like Introduction

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to classes and it's like 4 minutes and 15 seconds in,

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just let me know that it's in the 'Classes' video, and it's

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4 minutes and 15 seconds in.

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That helps me jump to that video, and I can

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see exactly what you're talking about.

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I have over 1500 videos made, I think now in my teaching

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career, and so it's actually really hard for me to keep track of all of these,

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so if you could just sort of help me out with that, that

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will help me provide a good answer to you in a timely manner,

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which is what I aim to do.

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I want to help you learn Python effectively, and efficiently,

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and this is going to help me do that.

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Thank you so much,

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and I look forward to helping you learn Python.