I am academician and I was teaching programming languages like C , C++ , Java and C# since more than 15 years . In 2010 , I remember , accidentally , I come across the new ( for me) programming language called Python , while reading magazines related to programming languages , in our college library. Later I found out that it was created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. I was really surprised to know that it was named after British surreal sketch comedy series , “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” . The two most important distinguishing features of Python that attracted me are :
- Python is Free and Open Source : It was free downloadable from the site https://www.python.org/ . I downloaded and installed the Python 2 .7 (Python 2.7.0 was released on July 3rd, 2010.) into my system and started to learn Python concepts by working on IDLE . ( The latest version of Python now available is Python 3.9 ).
- Python is easy to learn and read : One biggest advantage of Python , that I felt was that it is easy to read and learn with simple language syntax and uncluttered by punctuation . It is a high level programming language and reads quite like English , which made me sense the coding fundamentals quickly . It is indentation oriented programming language which makes code more better to look as illustrated below :
While programming Python scripts in IDLE , I really felt excited with an interesting function : input() , which functioned like both printf and scanf in C programming . Even though initially I practiced most of the programs on IDLE (Interactive Development and Learning Environment) , nowadays I am practicing my Python programs on Anaconda Jupyter Note Book.
Below are some of the examples that I practiced using input() function :
Other Distinguishing Features (But not limited) that makes Python attractive are :
Rich Set of Libraries :
Easy maintenance
Interpreted Language
Portability
Automatic memory management
Support towards object and procedure oriented programming
Extensible
Embeddable
Flexibility and
versatility .
… Will be Continued