Just rebooted again and this time it worked?!?!!!

Thanks for all the advice, much appreciated (by someone who has less aptitude for this than the 8 year old he's trying to teach!!)

Hi, thanks, yes have tried rebooting and starting from desktop and start menu/programs. File extensions just misquotes in the typing.

Any other thoughts, should I just reformat and reload sd card and start again?

Help again! It didn't work. Deleted the pc files, couldn't see any pcy files but same issue persists....any other thoughts??

Thanks! Will give that a go. The boy is desperate to get onto the next chapter!

Have been working through book with son, started to use Python through IDLE3, done a couple of projects, come back to open again and get following message: IDLE's sub process didn't make connection. Either Idle can't start a sub process or personal firewall software is blocking the connection. Not a...

Thanks! That did it!

I'm sorry, I know this is dumb but with my son trying to get started, have set up, turned on got to first screen (to select operating system, from pre-installed noobs card) and mouse and keyboard don't work so can't do anything. Have tested them in regular PC and they work but the light on the under...