Why Learning Python

Beginning Python Programming

Makzan, 2020 April.

What Python can do for us?

• Automate repeated operations
• Fetch data through API
• Fetch data on web
• Data process with our pre-defined formulas
• Machine learning and beyond
• Web service projects

Why Python?

• Easy to learn
• Reliability
• Community is large
• Many libraries and tools

Easy to Learn

• Python is high level and interpreted.
• High level = less bugs
• Interpreted = can be interactive
• Jupyter Notebook = Interactive learning environment

Python is reliable

• Python has a long history and latest major released has been 10 years.
• Active update and current release is Python 3.8.

Python is reliable

• 2008: Python 3.0
• 2009: Python 3.1
• 2011: Python 3.2
• 2012: Python 3.3
• 2014: Python 3.4
• 2015: Python 3.5
• 2016: Python 3.6
• 2018: Python 3.7
• 2019: Python 3.8
• 2020: Python 3.9

Community

• Large community = easy to seek help
• When we face an issue, there are chance that other faces similar issue too.

Libraries and tools

• Tons of libraries and tools available
• There are modules for almost anything we need.

Summary: Why Python?

• Easy to learn
• Reliability
• Community is large
• Many libraries and tools

What Python can do for us?

• Automate repeated operations
• Fetch data through API
• Fetch data on web
• Data process with our pre-defined formulas
• Machine learning and beyond
• Web service projects

Summary:

Self Check

• How large community help in programming?
• What is the current major verion of Python?
• What common tasks we can do with Python?

What’s next?

Running Python