Learn Python. The Easy Way

Document from the year 2018 in the subject Computer Science - Programming course: Information Technology language: English abstract: Python developed by Guido van Rossum of Netherlands in the late 80s and named after the BBC TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus is one of the most user-friendly and powerful general-purpose computer programming languages available today. Its English-like syntax makes it a great language for teaching and learning computer programming. Python's powerful data structures/types such as lists tuples dictionaries sets and arrays make coding simple. It also comes with an extensive collection of built-in/library functions that allows users to develop software applications with relative ease. Besides users can freely import external modules to help them develop all sorts of applications. Python's interactive and interpreted mode makes coding and testing software easy. Python also doubles us as a powerful and sophisticated calculator. You can use Python to develop all sorts of applications ranging from simple Mathematical and Text processing to Database Web Graphical User Interface Network Games Data Mining Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Deep Learning. This book is intended for beginners who have little or no knowledge of programming. It is also suitable for intermediate programmers who already have some knowledge of programming. This text is suitable for secondary school college and university students irrespective of their field of study - be it Arts Business Science Engineering Life Sciences or Medicine. It starts with the basics but progresses rapidly to the advanced topics such as lists tuples dictionaries arrays functions classes files and databases. So whether you are a beginner or an intermediate programmer this book will help you master the essentials of Python programming very quickly. The book is written in a simple easy-to-read style and contains numerous examples to illustrate the pr