Python: a great start towards your bright future.

Harsh Kumar
4 min readJun 27, 2018

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Python is one of the easiest programming languages that you can start with because unlike others you have to right few codes for an expression. It was created by Guido Rossum in 1989 and released in 1991. Python follows the interpreted logic which is different from other programming languages which follows compiler logic. Apart from that, it is an object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. It follows both object-oriented as well as procedural-oriented programming style.

Features of Python

· Simple to learn

It has a big reason why it’s easy to learn as it has the codes more likely in English which is much easy to other programming languages. So, it easy to write and easy to read.

· Free & Open Source

So, you don’t have to spend any money which is because of FLOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and you can freely create and modify and distribute its code.

· Portable

Python is supported by most of the platforms like Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, PlayStation, etc

· Different Paradigm

This means that Python has the ability to support the two major paradigms i.e. Procedure-oriented and Object-oriented.

· Extensible

This feature is most important of all. It is a language which has the facility to integrate Java or .Net components and if you want then you can write some code of python in C++ and invoke C and C++ libraries as well.

· Embeddable

In addition to extensible feature, you can put your python code in some other programming language like C++.

· Large Library

Python comes with a large library which reduces your effort of writing code for every single thing. There are different libraries such as web-browser, unit-testing, threading, databases, CGI and much more.

· Dynamically Typed

In Python, you don’t have to declare the type of data as it decides the type of value at runtime. So, that’s how Python is dynamically typed.

Applications

Python has a variety of applications which is considered to best and reliable as compared to others.

· Web development

Python makes the work of web developer a lot easy by using its various libraries. It makes the work of development of a website or a web application easy due to its libraries for internet protocols like HTML, JSON, e-mail processing, IMAP, etc.

It has different web-frameworks like Django, CherryPy, Flask, Bottle, etc to simplify the works related to database, content management, interaction, etc.

· GUI

As Python has lots of features and capable of working on Linux, Windows, MacOS and other operating systems which makes it the perfect choice for desktop application development which requires a great use of GUI. Python has lots of GUI toolkits like PyGtk or PyQt which is a blessing for developers to make high-end Graphical User Interface (GUI).

· Scientific and Numeric Application

Python is a powerful language which has a variety of applications and this is the popular one. In scientific communities, Python has a respectable place. These are some popular scientific libraries:

AstroPy

Biopython

Pandas

SciPy

NumPy

Matplotlib

· Enterprises and Business Application

With features like Portability, easy to learn, extensible, large libraries and another great one, Python is the first choice for any Business or company. Considering this, Python is used by Google, YouTube, Nasa, Netflix and other Big fishes of Internet sea.

· Software Development

Python is also used in developing software as a support language used by a developer. It has different use like control and management, prototyping, testing and for lot other things. Some popular tools for software development are:

Buildout

Apache Gump

SCons

Roundup

· Database Access

Python is compatible with almost every database like MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and others. Object database like Durus and ZODB are also compatible with Python.

· Games and 3D Graphics

Python is well known for games and 3D graphics. People take more interest when it comes to Games and 3D Graphics. There are the two game development frameworks PyKyra and PyGame which is used for developing the game. There are a variety of 3D Graphics libraries for use.

No one can count all the applications of Python but now you have knowledge of the features of Python which makes it so special. So, it’s better to learn the course of Python. There are different methods through which you can learn Python. As usual, you can learn from the online course of Python but to have a good grasp on the language a training institute of Python is the best option. Especially, if you are in Delhi NCR then it has lots of Python institutes in Gurgaon and Delhi.

So, if you are looking for a language to learn as a beginner or confused among different programming languages that which one is best for your career then maybe Python is the ideal choice for you.

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