Introduction

• Python is a general purpose high level programming language.
• Python was developed by Guido Van Rossam in 1989 while working at national research institute at netherlands
• Officially python was made available to public in 1991. The official date of birth for python is : Feb 20th 1991.
• The name python was selected from the tv show “The Complete Monty Python’s Circus“, which was broadcasted in BBC from 1969 to 1974.

Example 1: Print “Hello world”

In Java

public class HelloWorld
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.out.print("Hello world");
    }
}

Output

Hello world

In C

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
  printf("Hello world");
}

Output

Hello world

In Python

print("Hello World")

Output

Hello world

Example 2: Print the sum of 2 numbers

In Java

public class Add
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    int a,b;
    a=10;
    b=20;
    System.out.print("The Sum: "+(a+b));
  }
}

Output

The Sum: 30

In C

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
    int a,b;
    a=10;
    b=20;
    printf("The Sum:%d ",(a+b));
}

Output

The Sum: 30

In Python

a=10
b=20
print("The Sum: ",(a+b))

Output

The Sum: 30

Features of python

Python language developed by taking almost all programming features from different languages.

Python use cases

We can use python everywhere. The most common application areas are;

1. For developing desktop applications.
2. For developing web applications.
3. For developing database applications.
4. For network programming.
5. For developing games.
6. For data analysis applications.
7. For machine learning.
8. For developing AI applications.
9. For IOT.

Remark:

• Top Software companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, Yahoo using python.

Ungraded Questions

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