By: Arif Khan
Often newbies askes me. “What should I learn to start my career in programming field, while I don’t know anything about programming? I always encourage them to start learning Python. After hearing my answer they further asks me.
Why Python?
According to TIOBE (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST) index. Python is playing its game changing role in the world of information technology. There are so many reasons behind this. Today we will dive into some of them.
Python is lucrative
The demand of Python programmers is increasing day by day. In past couple of years, significant growth is seen because of its high average salary, Python versatility makes it a job-market winner. Because of its applicability and efficiency Python is favorable in both of these areas.
Python is easy to learn
Because of its simple structure. If you are intimidated by programming or coding, learning Python is a good starting point for you. Python was designed with developer friendliness and its syntax is closer to English than other languages. You can write cleaner code in Python with no whitespaces in the code.
Supports Multiple Paradigms
Python fully supports object oriented and structured programming. Its language features also support different concepts in aspect oriented and functional programming. Python also features automatic memory management and dynamic type system, this will help you to us Python to build/develop large and complex applications
Python has Data Science
From last couple of years Data Science is hottest field, in today’s world the huge amount of data is everywhere and every business wants to turn this data into golden information for them to innovate solutions of problems they might not have otherwise been able to address. For example DS addressed idle plane time and saved $100 million of Southwest Airlines.
Since 2012, the field has experienced more than 600% growth and is still growing, who learn Python can hold the success in this field.
Platform independent
As a programming language Python does not enforce you to work on specific platform, there is no doubt that Python is not choosy when it comes to platform, it works equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Just write the code and execute it where ever it needs to be executed.
Python programmers are lucky that their code is platform independent and it can be run anywhere anytime.
Deep Learning
It is a branch of machine learning it can classifies things based on the way they sound, look and read. Yes! Now a days computers are able to do that.
Amazing Graphics
If you are creative than you can enjoy using Python for its amazing game graphics. With combination of complex code and brained artistry it has ability to generate images and amazing graphics, using its deep learning ability, as I mentioned earlier.
Web Scraping
Gathering, refining and using huge data to address write customer at right time is a need of today’s business world. Big data is available on web, human is not capable to collect and refine all data from the web, to do these type of jobs Python web scraping ability is the best choice.
Automation
A huge number of human resource is spending their several precious working hours doing same tasks every day. With Python automation ability we can automate those tasks with the most powerful python libraries like Pyautogui, Pyautoit and Selenium web driver which available for most commonly used search engines, that is how we can use our human resource to do more creative and result oriented tasks.
Robot Framework
Python is best language which has ability to perform software testing. Just write the testing scenario and perform test, even it can take the screen shots for you when testing failure arise, no need to deep dive into debugging.
As Python code is cleaner and concise, it is a more problem solving language than others, platform is not an issue, as it is compatible all major platforms. Another huge advantage of this language is its extensive free to use libraries.
Open Source Frameworks and tools
Because Python is open source programming language, it helps you to minimize software development cost, even you can use many open source Python frameworks, libraries and tools minimize development time without increasing the cost, you can choose any open source framework according to your needs. You can speed up your web development by using Python web frameworks like Flask, Django and Cherrypy. You can also make desktop applications using Python GUI frameworks and toolkits e.g. PyQT,PyGUI,Kivy,PyGTK,PyJs,Tkinter and WxPython.
While using said frameworks and toolkits you will learn many more like Jinja template, XML, JavaScript, JQuery, ORM (Object Relational Mapping), SQLite, Postgresql, MongoDB.
Countless open source and free resources are available for Python newbies
Almost every programmer always seeking for learning something new to gain more and more knowledge. There are many free platforms available at any level of development experience. We know that most of the time it needs supportive experts to dive in.
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