Introduction of Python

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Python in simple words is a High-Level Dynamic Programming Language which is interpreted. Guido Van Rossum, the father of Python had simple goals in mind when he was developing it, easy looking code, readable and open source. Python is ranked as the 3rd most prominent language followed by JavaScript and Java in a survey held in 2018 by Stack Overflow which serves proof to it being the most growing language.

What is Python?

Python is currently my favorite and most preferred language to work on because of its simplicity, powerful libraries, and readability. You may be an old school coder or may be completely new to programming, Python is the best way to get started!

Python provides features listed below :

• Simplicity: Think less of the syntax of the language and more of the code.
• Open Source: A powerful language and it is free for everyone to use and alter as needed.
• Portability: Python code can be shared and it would work the same way it was intended to. Seamless and hassle-free.
• Being Embeddable & Extensible: Python can have snippets of other languages inside it to perform certain functions.
• Being Interpreted: The worries of large memory tasks and other heavy CPU tasks are taken care of by Python itself leaving you to worry only about coding.
• Huge amount of libraries: Data Science? Python has you covered. Web Development? Python still has you covered. Always.
• Object Orientation: Objects help breaking-down complex real-life problems into such that they can be coded and solved to obtain solutions.

To sum it up, Python has a simple syntax, is readable, and has great community support.

Python Interpreter

An interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without requiring them previously to have been compiled into a machine language program. So unlike Java, Python uses an interpreter.

The interpreter is a program that we need to run our python code or scripts. It basically provides an interface between the code and the computer hardware to get the results of the code.

No matter in which programming language the code is written, it goes through an interpreter when it comes to python. 

Why Learn Python?

Python’s syntax is very easy to understand. The lines of code required for a task is less compared to other languages. Let me give you an example – If I have to print “Welcome To Edureka!”  all I have to type:

                  print("Welcome to programokey !")

Let’s look at some cool features of Python:

1. Simple and easy to learn
2. Free and Open Source
3. Portable
4. Supports different programming paradigm
5. Extensible

If you are wondering where you can use Python (Python Application), let me tell you that is where Python stands out.

Python Applications

1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Desktop Application
3. Automation
4. Web Development
5. Data Wrangling, Exploration And Visualization

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