Why Python Should Be Your First Programming Language
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This document discusses why Python should be the first programming language for learners. Python has a short learning curve due to its readability, lack of curly braces, and easy setup. It is a dynamic, object-oriented language with a large standard library that makes it suitable for tasks like data analysis, web development, scientific computing, and more. Many large companies like Google, YouTube, Dropbox, and Yahoo use Python for applications, tools, and internal projects. The popularity and demand for Python skills has grown significantly in recent years.
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Here’s an example of how easy and readable Python is.
Hello World in C++
#include stdout
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, world!n";
}
Hello world in Java
class HelloWorldApp
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}
Python Hello World](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/whypythonshouldbeyourfirstprogramminglanguage-150813100849-lva1-app6891/85/Why-Python-Should-Be-Your-First-Programming-Language-5-320.jpg)
![Slide 6 www.edureka.co/python
Here’s an example of how easy and readable Python is.
Hello World in C++
#include stdout
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, world!n";
}
Hello world in Java
class HelloWorldApp
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}
Python Hello World
Hello World in Python
print("Hello, world!")](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/whypythonshouldbeyourfirstprogramminglanguage-150813100849-lva1-app6891/85/Why-Python-Should-Be-Your-First-Programming-Language-6-320.jpg)
Why Python Should Be Your First Programming Language
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- 2. Slide 2 www.edureka.co/python At the end of this module, you will be able to understand: Objectives Python’s Short Learning Curve Duck Type Programming Language Python Features Python For Analytics Big Brands Using Python Python Job Trend
- 3. Slide 3 www.edureka.co/python Short Learning Curve
- 4. Slide 4 www.edureka.co/python Easy to Learn Python is a great language for the beginner programmers since it is easy-to-learn and easy-to-maintain. Very Readable
- 5. Slide 5 www.edureka.co/python Here’s an example of how easy and readable Python is. Hello World in C++ #include stdout int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!n"; } Hello world in Java class HelloWorldApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } } Python Hello World
- 6. Slide 6 www.edureka.co/python Here’s an example of how easy and readable Python is. Hello World in C++ #include stdout int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!n"; } Hello world in Java class HelloWorldApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } } Python Hello World Hello World in Python print("Hello, world!")
- 7. Slide 7 www.edureka.co/python No Curly Braces Focus on learning programming concepts and paradigms rather than wasting time in understanding syntax You don’t have to worry about curly braces in Python { }
- 8. Slide 8 www.edureka.co/python Easy Setup
- 9. Slide 9 www.edureka.co/python Easy Setup Very Minimal Setup You don't need to learn a build system, IDE, special text editor, or anything else to start using python - a command prompt, the interactive editor, and a simple text editor, are all you need
- 10. Slide 10 www.edureka.co/python Portability of Python Python’s biggest strength is that the bulk of it’s library is portable. Supports GUI Programming and can be used to create Applications portable on Mac, Windows and Unix X-Windows system.
- 11. Slide 11 www.edureka.co/python Python Features
- 12. Slide 12 www.edureka.co/python YOU’RE FLYING! HOW?? PYTHON Language Features
- 13. Slide 13 www.edureka.co/python Dynamic Interpreted Language Features YOU’RE FLYING! HOW?? PYTHON Highly Readable Object- oriented Interactive Functional
- 14. Slide 14 www.edureka.co/python Duck Type Programming Language In duck typing, a programmer is only concerned with ensuring that objects behave as demanded of them in a given context, rather than ensuring that they are of a specific type. Python passes Duck test. Reference: https://coronalabs.com
- 15. Slide 15 www.edureka.co/python With libraries like PyDoop and SciPy, it’s a dream come true for Big Data Analytics
- 16. Slide 16 www.edureka.co/python PyDoop – Hadoop with Python PyDoop package provides a Python API for Hadoop MapReduce and HDFS PyDoop has several advantages over Hadoop’s built-in solutions for Python programming, i.e., Hadoop Streaming and Jython One of the biggest advantage of PyDoop is it’s HDFS API. This allows you to connect to an HDFS installation, read and write files, and get information on files, directories and global file system properties The MapReduce API of PyDoop allows you to solve many complex problems with minimal programming efforts. Advance MapReduce concepts such as ‘Counters’ and ‘Record Readers’ can be implemented in Python using PyDoop Python can be used to write Hadoop MapReduce programs and applications to access HDFS API for Hadoop with PyDoop package
- 17. Slide 17 www.edureka.co/python Demo: Python NLTK on Hadoop Leveraging Analytical power of Python on Big Data Set. (MR + NLTK) Perform stop word removal using Map Reduce.
- 18. Slide 18 www.edureka.co/python Python and Data Science Python is an excellent choice for Data Scientist to do his day-to-day activities as it provides libraries to do all these things Python has a diverse range of open source libraries for just about everything that a Data Scientist does in his day-to-day work Python and most of its libraries are both open source and free The day-to-day tasks of a data scientist involves many interrelated but different activities such as accessing and manipulating data, computing statistics and , creating visual reports on that data, building predictive and explanatory models, evaluating these models on additional data, integrating models into production systems, etc.
- 19. Slide 19 www.edureka.co/python SciPy.org SciPy (pronounced “Sigh Pie”) is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. NumPy Base N-dimensional array package IPython Enhanced Interactive Console SciPy library Base N-dimensional array package Sympy Symbolic mathematics Matplotlib Comprehensive 2D Plotting pandas Data structures and analysis
- 21. Slide 21 www.edureka.co/python Big Brands Using Python » Dropbox web-based file hosting service is implemented using Python » Both the Dropbox server (running in the cloud) and desktop client software are primarily written in Python. » Yahoo acquired Four11, whose address and mapping lookup services were implemented in Python. » Yahoo Maps uses Python. » Many components of the Google spider and search engine are written in Python. » YouTube is originally written in Python and mysql. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software
- 22. Slide 22 www.edureka.co/python Big Brands Using Python » Zope Corporation has developed Blue Bream (a powerful Web application server) using Python that's available as free software. - http://bluebream.zope.org/ » Ultraseek Server, a commercial search engine product, is implemented as an elaborate multi- threaded Python program. » The program contains over 11,000 lines of Python code, and the user interface is implemented with over 17,000 lines of Python-scripted HTML templates. » Shopzilla is a family of comparison shopping sites. » Shopzilla uses Python for configuration management and deployment, automated testing and internal tool development. » YUM, a package management utility for RPM- compatible Linux operating systems is written in Python. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software
- 23. Slide 23 www.edureka.co/python Growing Interest in Python
- 24. Slide 24 www.edureka.co/python Hot Job Trend
- 25. Slide 25 www.edureka.co/python Python Job Trend Comparison
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