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Training Kim

It's kinda like driving Ms. Daisy with python

So you want to learn python? Do you know where the name python comes from? Well sit down in that chair right there and let me tell you how that happened.

You see the creator of the python programming language didn't have an affinity for snakes, no he was a huge fan of Monty Python, and that's why the language you know and love so much is named python.

What is python

python is a high-level interpreted programming language. What does that mean? python code is compiled at run time by the python interpreter, unlike C++ or rust or other compiled languages which you must compile the code prior to running. It is popularized by it's prevelance in various applications like web development, data analysis, artificial intelligence, automation, and many others.

python code is very human readable, looking more like natural language than computer code. This makes it much easier to learn and much more fun (read funner) to code.

Hello, world

Starting with the infamious Hello, world! program is very easy in python, it is a simple one line program.

print("Hello, world!")

Running this code with the python interpreter will yield what you might expect.

$ python hello.py
Hello, world!

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My name: well you know, it's me; Mike

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