World’s Most Flexible Programming Language- Introduction to Python

Knowledge is of two kinds. One is Declarative & another is Imperative. Declarative knowledge is what tells us the end result of a process. It does not tell how to have the result. And there comes the imperative knowledge what tells us how to have the result. And the same does a program. A code is set of a sequence of outcomes. So to learn something imperatively you need to know programming.

First objective to learn programming is that you need to and you should think like a computer scientist. Now there a question rises. “How a computer scientist think?” The answer is that a computer scientist looks for all the possible outcomes of a problem to find the way to solve it.

Then you need to learn a programming language. There a at least hundred of languages out there.Those languages perform differently.Certain language is good for solving certain problem.But there are no best language.

Now you can ask me why I chose Python programming language? Here is my answer: Python is a high level, interpreted, interactive language and it is a general language, it also uses English keywords, it also has fewer syntactical construction than other languages. Now I gonna mention some more features below:

   1. Python is interpreted: Python  is  processed  at  runtime  by  the  interpreter. You  do  not  need  to  compile  your  program  before  executing  it.  This  is  similar to  PERL  and  PHP. 

Some useful interpreters :

1 PyCharm
2. Sublime Text 2
3. PyScript

   2.  Python  is  Interactive:  You  can  actually  sit  at  a  Python  prompt  and  interact with  the  interpreter  directly  to  write  your  programs.

   3. Python  is  Object-Oriented : Python  supports  Object-Oriented  style  or technique  of  programming  that  encapsulates code  within  objects.

   4.  Python  is  a  Beginner’s  Language:
Python  is  a  great  language  for  the beginner-level  programmers  and  supports  the  development  of  a  wide  range  of applications  from  simple text  processing  to  WWW  browsers  to  games.

   5.  Easy-to-learn:  Python  has  few  keywords,  simple  structure,  and  a  clearly defined  syntax.  This  allows  the student  to  pick  up  the  language  quickly.

   6.  Easy-to-read: Python  code  is  more  clearly  defined  and  visible to  the eyes.

   7.Easy-to-maintain:  Python’s  source code  is  fairly  easy-to-maintain.

8. A broad  standard  library:  Python’s  bulk  of  the  library  is  very  portable  and cross-platform  compatible on  UNIX,  Windows,  and  Macintosh. 

 9.Interactive  Mode:  Python  has  support  for  an  interactive  mode  which  allows interactive testing  and  debugging  of  snippets  of  code. 

 10. Portable: Python  can  run  on  a  wide  variety  of  hardware  platforms  and  has  the same interface on  all  platforms.

11.  Extendable: You  can  add  low-level  modules  to  the  Python  interpreter.  These modules  enable  programmers  to  add  to  or  customize  their  tools  to  be  more efficient.

12. Databases: Python  provides  interfaces  to  all  major  commercial  databases.

13.  GUI Programming: Python  supports  GUI (graphical user interface) applications  that  can  be  created  and ported  to  many  system  calls,  libraries,  and  windows  systems,  such  as  Windows MFC,  Macintosh,  and  the X  Window  system  of  Unix.

 14. Scalable:  Python  provides  a  better  structure  and  support  for  large  programs than  shell  scripting.

Apart  from  the  above-mentioned  features,  Python  has  a  big  list  of  good  features,  few are listed  below:
** It supports  functional  and  structured  programming  methods  as  well  as  OOP.

**  It  can  be  used  as  a  scripting  language  or  can  be  compiled  to  byte-code  for building  large applications.

   **It  provides  very  high-level  dynamic  data  types  and  supports  dynamic  type checking.

**  IT  supports  automatic  garbage collection.

** It can be easily integrated with C, C++, COM, ActiveX, CORBA, and Java.

In short those are all the reason that tell the importance of learning “python” programming language.

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