Introduction
”The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
Congratulations on getting started by choosing to learn python, which is the most popular, beginner-friendly, and best-paid programming language around the world. In this tutorial, you will learn python from the beginning to the end with many real-time examples.
Let’s get it started!!!
History
Python was developed during the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherland. Python has many versions, its initial version was released in 1991, followed by version 1 in 1994 and version 2 in 2000, version 3 was released in 2008, with an important note that version 3 is not backward compactable with version 2 of python.
We are continuously getting updates for both versions, to date. As of the date of this article, Python-3.10.4 and Python-2.7.18 are the latest versions.
Pre-requisites
- Keen interest to learn python from basics to advanced levels.
- Knowing basic operations in computer, like downloading and installing an application.
Why choose Python 3?
- Python is free.
- Python is popular.
- Python is an interpreted language.
- Python provides very simple syntax to make the learning process easy for beginners.
- Python is an object-oriented programming language.
- Python has very vast libraries to do complex operations.
Who will I be if learning python 3?
Python is mandatory for the following industries,
- Data science
- Scientific and mathematical computing
- Web development
- Finance and trading
- System automation and administration
- Machine Learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Deep learning
Installing python
Many PCs and Macs will have python already installed.
To check if you have python installed on a Windows PC, search in the start bar for Python or run the following on the Command Line (cmd.exe):
C:\Users\Your Name>python --version
To check if you have python installed on a Linux or Mac, go to Linux open the command line, or on Mac open the Terminal and type:
python --version
If python is not installed, then go to the website: https://www.python.org/ and download it.
How to start coding?
Total beginner? using online ide to start with python will be simple. You can start coding in an online IDE www.replit.com
Here you can start by clicking signup and signup using your Google account.
Click on create and choose python as a template and you can name your file in the title and click create repl.
You are all set to start learning python.
Conclusion
In the above article, we have shared a brief on the history of python, why python, and the future of yourself if learning python, installing python, getting started with python.
