Explore the fundamentals of scientific programming in this introductory video lecture from the Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics course. Delve into key concepts such as language, shell, Python, Jupiter Notebook, and IDE while learning how to run code and create Python notebooks. Gain practical skills in working with lexicons, functions, HTML, dictionaries, and plots. Designed for humanities scholars, this lecture empowers participants to leverage computational text analysis techniques for extracting content and deriving meaning from digital sources, ultimately enabling new avenues of humanities scholarship. Part of a comprehensive course covering digital humanities, cultural analytics, text analysis, probability, measurement, natural language processing, and topic modeling.