This book serves as a guide or tutorial to the Python programming language. It is intended to help both newbies as well as experienced programmers to learn and get started with Python.
If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then you can learn Python from this book. If you have previous programming experience, then you can learn Python from this book also.
If you do have previous programming experience, you will be interested in the differences between Python and your favorite programming language and I have highlighted many such differences for you. A little warning though, Python is soon going to become your favorite programming language!
Python is one of those rare languages which can claim to be both simple and powerful. You will be pleasantly surprised to see how easy it is to concentrate on the solution to the problem rather than on the syntax (i.e. the structure of the program that you are writing) of the language.
The official Python introduction is
Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python’s elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.
I will discuss these features in more detail in the next section. By the way, Guido van Rossum (the creator of the Python language) named the language after the BBC show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”. He doesn’t particularly like snakes that kill animals for food by winding their long bodies around them and crushing them.
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If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then you can learn Python from this book. If you have previous programming experience, then you can learn Python from this book also.
If you do have previous programming experience, you will be interested in the differences between Python and your favorite programming language and I have highlighted many such differences for you. A little warning though, Python is soon going to become your favorite programming language!
Python is one of those rare languages which can claim to be both simple and powerful. You will be pleasantly surprised to see how easy it is to concentrate on the solution to the problem rather than on the syntax (i.e. the structure of the program that you are writing) of the language.
The official Python introduction is
Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python’s elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.
I will discuss these features in more detail in the next section. By the way, Guido van Rossum (the creator of the Python language) named the language after the BBC show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”. He doesn’t particularly like snakes that kill animals for food by winding their long bodies around them and crushing them.
Download A Byte of Python
