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July 17, 2020 06:03 am GMT

Python Programming: A Beginners Guide

Python is an interpreted, high-level, powerful general-purpose programming language. You may ask, Pythons a snake right? and Why is this programming language named after it? Well, you are in the right place to discover it! and Ill also answer the Why? What? How? Questions on Python programming.

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Why do we need to know about Python?

People prefer Python over French (What!)
According to a recent survey, in the UK, Python overtook French to be the most popular language taught in primary schools. (OMG!) 6 of 10 parents preferred their children to learn Python over French.

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So hurry up(or these kids will for sure)! get ready to learn it! coz theres a possibility of you being hired in one of the companies mentioned below!!!

Big Companies are using Python

NASA, Google, Nokia, IBM, Yahoo!,Google Maps, edX,
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Facebook, Netflix, Expedia, Reddit, Quora, MIT, Disqus, Hike, Spotify, Udemy, Shutterstock, Uber, Amazon, Mozilla, Dropbox, Pinterest, YouTube and many more

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Applications of Python in the real world

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Data Science
Web Development
Automation/Testing
Scripting
Web Scraping
and many more

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What is Python?

Some History and Why the name Python?

Lets start a Flashback tale(Trust me its interesting). Python is created by a guy named Guido van Rossum.

Guido Van Rossum was looking for a hobby project to keep him occupied in the week around Christmas. He chose to call it Python, coz Guido himself is a big fan of Monty Pythons Flying Circus ( Popular British comedy troupe). So rather being in an irrelevant mood he named the project Python.

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Hence the name Python was adopted. Well, this resulted in you reading my Blog(Hahaha!), but heres a fact (Are you ready to be stunned?)
Python influenced Javascript and 8 other languages to be designed,
-> C, Java, Perl, AWK, HyperTalk, Lua, Scheme and Self.
Yes, you read it right!!, Python has influenced all these languages to be either designed or updated after it.

What do you need to know about Python?

Well, now you may wonder Python is something worthwhile to know isnt!
Heres Bite-sized info to offer you on basic points on the features of Python programming language. (Apologies for my Handwriting!).

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How & Where Should you start learning?

Certification Courses:-

Udemy Complete Python Developer in 2020: Zero to Mastery
I have been learning Python this year from an awesome Instructor, Andrei Neagoie. He has created an academy-Zero to Mastery, its a platform with courses touching the topics like Web Development, Machine Learning, JavaScript, Deno and much more so check it out if youre interested. zerotomastery.io
Coursera Crash course on Python
It is the first course of 6 part course series from Professional Certification course Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate, offered by Google. You can audit the courses to try out for free.

Free to Use:-

Python Official Documentation
You can always learn from and refer to, the Official documentation of Python, its always free.
Python Tutorial for Beginners
Check out this YouTube tutorial on Python for Beginners by Telusko Channel.
FreeCodeCamp
Its a good website which provides lots of resources on Python Tutorials.

Python Ecosystem

Python is a favourite choice for programming when it comes to Machine Learning, Deep Learning or even Web Development. The ecosystem grows a lot day by day with libraries and frameworks(some of the most used ones are mentioned in this sketch right down below !).

Let me list these out with its functionalities:-

Machine Learning/Data Science: Pandas(Data Analysis), NumPy, SciPy (Mathematical and scientific computation), matplotlib (Plotting), Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch(Machine Learning/Deep Learning libraries).
Jupyter Notebook: Developer Environment
Web Development: Flask(Micro Web Framework), Django(Multi-level Web Framework).

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Keep Learning

Now, I guess this is where I say GoodBye. But, Hey its time for you to start learning with your newfound Knowledge(Power) .
Good Job that you made this far and Thank you so much for reading my Blog. And stay tuned by following my page for updates.

Bonus Section

To learn more about Python (right now), check out this Playlist by Andrei Neagoie on Become a Python Developer.

[https://youtu.be/54ILmXAHC0M?list=PL2HX_yT71umCoQEFRTTFxGMlzxPjytcKi]

Are you interested to know more about Python in-depth? Do you want to become a Python Developer and work on Real-life applications? Check out this YouTube video The Real Python Developer Roadmap. Its a long video but hang in there. Its a really great video about what to learn in Python Programming and careers options. (Trust me on this too)

[https://youtu.be/d5BzuLlII_Y]


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