Introduction to Python Programming (English)

#PythonProgramming #FOSS #Computer Science Most Popular Technologies - Programming, Scripting, and Markup Languages JavaScript tops the list, which is no surprise: it continues to be used everywhere, for both frontend and backend development. In fact, this is the sixth consecutive year that JavaScript topped the list. (Stack OverFlow) Developer Survey Results 2019. (Source: https://stackoverflow.com/) JavaScript has the most contributors in public and private repositories, across organizations of all sizes, and in every region of the world. (GitHub Octoverse Report) Most popular languages of 2018. (Source: https://github.com/ ) Growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fueling Python’s growth and engineers seem to love programming with it: According to a survey, Python was the favorite language of IEEE members in 2018. (IEEE Spectrum) Most popular languages of 2018. (Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-2018-top-programming-languages) Python No. 1 trending language specially for Data Science & AI Processing (Symbolic & Statistical) Average Salary of Developers in Python is $75,400 (approx.) (Source: Linkedin) India No.2 Market for Python after USA Python – used for Backend and logic implementation Facebook – Backend - Python, Frontend - JAVA & other Languages IT Giants like Amazon, Spotify, Instagram, SurveyMonkey, Quora, Netflix, Dropbox, Reddit, Yahoo, Google, IBM, NASA, Disney prefer Python Python was created in the year 1991 by Guido Van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (National Research Institute of Mathematics & Computer Science) in Netherlands. Got its name from a BBC comedy serial “Monty Python Flying Circus”. —It is free to use and supports both Procedural and OOPs. A programming language with strong similarities to PERL, but with powerful typing and object oriented features. Commonly used for producing HTML content on websites. Great for text files. Useful built-in types (lists, dictionaries). Clean syntax, powerful extensions. —Python is a general purpose programming language which can be used for both scientific and non-scientific programming. It is a platform independent programming language with vast library of add-on modules.  It works in an Interactive and Script mode of programming. Resources: Things to read through “Dive into Python” (Chapters 2 to 4) http://diveintopython.org/ Python 101 – Beginning Python http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_101/python_101.html Things to refer to The Official Python Tutorial http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html The Python Quick Reference http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR2.3.html Dr. Salman Abdul Moiz, School of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Telangana Dr. Philemon Daniel, ECE Dept, NIT Hamirpur, Hamirpur, H.P.  The language is interpreted, hence give immediate results. It is easily readable and understandable. It is suitable as an extension language for customizable applications.  Python in case sensitive.