Why Python Should Be Your First Programming Language

Why Python Should Be Your First Programming Language
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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

Short Learning Curve

Easy to Learn
 Python is a great language for the beginner programmers since it is easy-to-learn and easy-to-maintain.
 Very Readable

 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

 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!")

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
{ }

Easy Setup

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

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.

Python Features

YOU’RE FLYING!
HOW??
PYTHON
Language Features

Dynamic
Interpreted
Language Features
YOU’RE FLYING!
HOW??
PYTHON
Highly
Readable
Object-
oriented Interactive
Functional

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

With libraries like PyDoop and
SciPy, it’s a dream come true
for Big Data Analytics

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

Demo: Python NLTK on Hadoop
Leveraging Analytical power of Python on Big Data Set. (MR + NLTK)
Perform stop word removal using Map Reduce.

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.

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

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Python’s Popularity

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

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

Growing Interest in Python

Hot Job Trend

Python Job Trend Comparison

Questions
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