6 Reasons Why Python is Beginner Friendly

3 min readJun 2, 2019

Are you new to programming? or a programmer with very little expertise? I hope you are looking to learn a language that is superb, powerful, dynamic yet easy to learn and offers a bright career. Python offers all these things.

Introduced in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum Python is one of the fastest growing, In-Demand, general purpose open-source programming language.

To dig deeper, I have listed out 10 reasons why you should choose Python as the first programming language.

1. Easy to Learn, Apply and Test

Python follows the philosophy of simple is better than complex.

Programming Languages like C, C++ and Java use curly braces to define code blocks. Python uses indentation for the same purpose. It reduces the additional work of formatting the code for readability.

That's why Python is easy to read, write and understand. Along with this Python follows a simple syntax which is inspired by the English language and Mathematics.

Python’s simple syntax reduces the cost of program maintenance.

Let's look at the Hello World! programs in both Python and C. Choosing the easier and easily readable one is left to you.

In C it looks like this,

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   printf("Hello, World!");
   return 0;
}

The same program in Python

print("Hello, world!")

2. Large Community is Out There

Every new programmer needs help from other expert programmers/developers to clear his doubts or to learn new things. This is where online communities can do the best for you.

On StackOverflow Python is one of the most followed programming languages. There are many other communities including python.org’s official community that you can join and get help from.

3. Great Career Opportunities

Python is a general-purpose programming language. It is versatile, portable and suitable for a wide variety of development tasks. Hence career opportunities are broader and brighter.

According to Indeed.com average salary of a Python Developer in the US is $117,497 per year and a Junior Python Developer makes around $80,909 per year.

4. You Can Do Lot Of Things Using Python

Python is a versatile programming language. Using Python you can do several things like,

Server-side web development using frameworks like Django, Flask, Pyramid or Bottle.
Web Scraping to extract large amounts of data from websites.
Data Analysis and Data Visualisation.
Machine Learning.
Desktop Applications and Build Games.
Raspberry Pi.

All these things Python a truly multipurpose language.

5. Large Standard Library and Tons Of Online Resources.

This is what makes the language versatile. Simple core language with extensible and extensive library makes Python one of the most powerful programming languages among the plethora of programming languages available today.

Tons of online resources are available if you want to learn the language. Many online courses make it effective and easier to learn Python.

6. Python Is Popular

A 2018 survey conducted by IEEE ranks Python as the top programming language among the 47 widely used languages.

Coding Dojo’s Forbes featured survey which analysed job postings on Dice.com, Indeed.com and Google search data says Python tops the list of five most in-demand coding languages in America.

The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code — not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death.
- Guido van Rossum