In this blog, I will respond to the following questions my students ask me about Python.
- What is Python?
- What can you do with it? And
- why is it so popular?
- In other words,
- How python is different from other programming languages?
Python is the most popular programming language, not just among software developers but also data analysts, scientists, and network engineers. Mainly because it’s easy for someone with no experience.
People from different disciplines use Python for various tasks, such as data analysis and visualization, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and automation; this is one of the prominent uses of Python amongst people who are not software developers. Suppose you constantly have to do tedious, repetitive tasks, such as copying files and folders, renaming them, and uploading them to a server. In that case, you can quickly write a Python script to automate all that and save your time.
If one has to continuously have to work with excel spreadsheets, PDFs, CS View files, download websites and parse them, you can easily deal with all these with Python. One doesn’t need to be a software engineer to use Python.
One could be an accountant, a mathematician, or a scientist and use Python to make your life easier. One can also use Python to build web, mobile and desktop applications, software testing, or even hacking. So, Python is a multi-purpose language.
Using Python, you can solve complex problems in less time with fewer lines of code. Here’s an example. Let’s say we want to extract the first three letters of the text Hello World. This is the code we have to write in C#. This is how we do it in JavaScript, and here’s how we
Python makes a lot of trivial things straightforward with an easy yet powerful syntax. Given below few
other reasons why Python is so popular nowadays. It’s a high-level language, so one doesn’t have to worry about complex tasks such as memory management like C++. It’s cross-platform, which means you can build and run Python applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It has a vast community, so whenever you get stuck, there is someone to guide you. Python has a large ecosystem of libraries, frameworks and tools, which means whatever you want to do, it is likely that someone has done it before because Python has been in the IT industry for almost 20 years.
In a nutshell, Python is a multi-purpose language with an easy, clean, and beginner-friendly syntax. All of that means Python is awesome.
Technically everything you do with Python language you can do the same using any other programming language, but Python’s simplicity and elegance have made it grow way more than other programming languages. That’s why it’s the number one language that employers are looking for nowadays. So whether you’re a programmer or an absolute beginner, learning Python opens up many job opportunities.
