Python: A new Way to deal with Programming World
In Today’s technology era the word “python” is playing very important role and is being widely used programming by tech giants like Google, Netflix, Facebook.
What is Python?
Python is a widely used general purpose, high-level object-oriented programming language that was initially created by Guido van Rossum in the year 1991 and developed by Python Software Foundation. It is used in almost every domain we can think of as mentioned below:
- Web Development
- Software Development
- Game Development
- AI & ML
- Data Analytics
The main purpose of using python as a programming language is code readability, and it syntax which is easy for the programmers to express concepts in fewer lines. In the late 1980's, It was that time when working on Python started. Soon after that, Guido Van Rossum began doing its application based work in December of 1989 by at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) which is situated in Netherland. It was started firstly as a hobby project because he was looking for an interesting project to keep him occupied during Christmas. The programming language which Python is said to have succeeded is ABC Programming Language, which had the interfacing with the Amoeba Operating System and had the feature of exception handling. He had already helped to create ABC earlier in his career and he had seen some issues with ABC but liked most of the features. After that what he did as really very clever. He had taken the syntax of ABC, and some of its good features. It came with a lot of complaints too, so he fixed those issues completely and had created a good scripting language which had removed all the flaws. The inspiration for the name came from BBC’s TV Show — ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, as he was a big fan of the TV show and also he wanted a short, unique and slightly mysterious name for his invention and hence he named it Python! He was the “Benevolent dictator for life” (BDFL) until he stepped down from the position as the leader on 12th July 2018. For quite some time he used to work for Google, but currently, he is working at Dropbox.
The language was finally released in 1991. When it was released, it used a lot fewer codes to express the concepts, when we compare it with Java, C++ & C. Its design philosophy was quite good too. Its main objective is to provide code readability and advanced developer productivity. When it was released it had more than enough capability to provide classes with inheritance, several core data types exception handling and functions.
The Release dates for the major and minor versions of Python are
- Python 1.0-January 1994
- Python 1.5-December 31, 1997
- Python 1.6-September 5, 2000
- Python 2.0-October 16, 2000
- Python 2.1-April 17, 2001
- Python 2.2-December 21, 2001
- Python 2.3-July 29, 2003
- Python 2.4-November 30, 2004
- Python 2.5-September 19, 2006
- Python 2.6-October 1, 2008
- Python 2.7-July 3, 2010
- Python 3.0-October 3, 2008
- Python 3.1-June 27, 2009
- Python 3.2-February 20, 2011
- Python 3.3-September 29, 2012
- Python 3.4-March 16, 2014
- Python 3.5-September 13, 2015
- Python 3.6-December 23, 2016
- Python 3.7-June 27, 2018
- Python 3.8-October 14, 2019
- Python 3.9-October 05, 2020
“Hello World”: The word which we hear when we start Programming
If you happened to learn some programming languages, then I am sure you are aware of what I am talking about. The “Hello World” program is like a tradition in the developer community. If you want to master any programming language, this should be the very first line of code we should be seeking for.
print("Hello World")
