THE PYTHON THAT WON’T CONSTRICT YOU
WHY PYTHON?
Popularity: Standard libraries + third party extensions = enormous amount of uses
Ease of use
Clean, easy to read syntax
PYTHON IS EASY Low barrier to entry – not much code needed to get the job done
PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)
PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)
PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)
PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)
PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)
PYTHON IS CLEAN AND POWERFUL
WHAT ELSE?
The new Perl – all around glue and utility language for small tasks
Rise in the science/data/analytical realm – SciPy, NumPy make data manipulation and
analysis very easy § Some claim easier than R
LEARN MORE
Codecademy
Fix our poker engine
Build a microservice using flask
Next time you reach for a bash script to solve a problem give python a whirl
IDE options: PyDev (eclipse), PyCharm
QUESTIONS?