Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
To Python
Yasir Albahlal
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content
• What is python.
• Differences between program and scripting language.
• History.
• What Python can do.
• Why PythonforAI and ML.
• Why do people use Python.
• Who uses python today.
• Example.
What is Python…?
Python is a general purpose programming language that is
often applied in scripting roles.
So, Python is programming language as well as scripting
language.
Python is also called as Interpreted language
Differences between program and
scripting language
Scripting
Program
a script is interpreted
a program is executed (i.e.
A "script" is code written
the source is first compiled,
in a scripting language. A
and the result of that
scripting language is nothing
compilation is expected)
but a type of programming
A "program" in general, is language in which we can
a sequence of instructions write code to control
written so that a computer another software
can perform certain task. application.
History
Invented in the Netherlands, early 90s by Guido van Rossum
Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its
implementation was started in December 1989
Guido Van Rossum is fan of ‘Monty Python’s Flying
Circus’, this is a famous TV show in Netherlands
Named after Monty Python
Open sourced from the beginning
Python’s Benevolent Dictator For Life
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https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/history-of-python/
https://towardsdatascience.com/8-reasons-why-
python-is-good-for-artificial-intelligence-and-
machine-learning-4a23f6bed2e6