PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Hafsa Eskiyurt
4 min readJun 4, 2021

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What is python? What can we do with python? Why is python so popular? How is python different from other languages? Let’s look at the answers to all these questions together.

What Is Python?

Python like any other languages, it is one of the programming languages people use to get computers to do what they think. There are some tasks we want to make the programs do in the internet, desktop environments and mobile environments. It is a programming language used to accomplish these tasks.

Python programming language began to be developed in 1990 by a Dutch computer programmer Guido Van Rosum. Later, because it was an open source, many people and comminities contributed to the development of this language. The name python doesn’t mean a snake. It was named after the British comedy group Monty Python, beloved by developer Guido Van Rossum.

What Can We Do With Python?

The python programming language is one of the fastest growing languages in the world. It’s popularity is increasing day by day. It is the most popular programming language used not only by software engineers but also by mathematicians, data analysts, scientists, statisticians. It is even a very suitable programming language for children to start learning algorithm and coding. It is one of the introductory courses in computer engineering departments at most universities. As an introduction to programming, python is recomended.

Many people think that since they see the python programming language at the introductory level, not much can be done with python but python has a wide range of uses. Python can also be used for data analysis, mobile applications, network applications and even hacking.

Python Highlights

Python has an extremely easy and clearly readable writing. In this respect, it is a language that least confuses beginners. It is superior to other programming languages with this feature in syntax. In short, it is a multipurpose language with a simple, clean and beginner-friendly syntax. You don’t need to be a software developer to use python. Accountant, doctor, mathematician or scientists can also easily learn and use. It is suitable to work as an outside question and answer, that is, it is interactive with the user.

It is high level programming language. This means when we ask the python programming language to do a job, for examplewhen we write code for a 3-unit job, it can do a 10-unit job. More work can be done with less effort compared to low level programming languages. It is an object oriented programming language. It is called OOP for short, rather than object oriented programming. OOP is a programming approach in which each function is defined as objects.

It is one of the most preffered languages in the field of data science and artifical intelligence. It has become a data oriented analysis and artifical intelligence. More complex problems can be solved in less time with fewer lines of code with python. Because it is open source, it has an active and strong community. This provides easy access to the desired information. It is always open to development. User interface design can be made.

Python doesn’t need a complier, unlike languages like C and C++. It can run almost any platform such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, Symbian. It has a very rich library. It offers an infrastructure for almost every subject. It is a programming language used by the world’s major companies. Technically, anything that can be done with python can be done with other programming languages. However the simplycity and ease of use of python are the reason why it is prefferd among other programming languages. Knowing the python programming language makes it easy to find a job. You only need a computer and a text editor to write code with python. But interface applications called IDEs which are easier to write code are preffered.

All popular IDEs can work with python. For example PyCharm, Spyder, Eclipse, Thonny are a few of them. In countries like USA, python programmers earn about $110,000 a year. So no matter what your job is, learning python offers you many opportunities.

People who can code are like wizards of the future. It seems like you have magical powers around other people.

Let’s end with a quote from Steve Jobs:

“Everyone should learn computer programming because programming teaches you how to think. ”

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Hafsa Eskiyurt

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