Python for Newbies

[ Thanks to rm42 for this
link. ]

“Python is a computer programming language created
initially by Guido Van Rossum, who released it to the world as an
“Open Source” “Free”program. It has since then been progressively
improved by the contributions of hundreds of computer programmers
around the world. The Python package can be downloaded gratis from
the internet for every major computing platform in existence. It
can be used and even modified for just about any purpose.

“Why Python?

“There are many computer programming languages in existence.
They all have different advantages and disadvantages. The brain of
a computer is its processor. No processor understands English. The
processor needs to receive input in a format that it understands.
Most processors are made to understand commands formatted as a
series of zeros “0” and ones “1”. This format is called binary. It
is possible to write programs by hand using this format of zeros
and ones, but it is very difficult, time consuming, and error
prone. That is why computer programming languages have been
invented.

“Programming languages are frequently categorized as “low level”
or “high level”. Low level languages were the first ones to appear.
They simplified the process of writing instructions to the computer
by allowing the use of normal words to be used in writing the
program. A translator program, a “compiler”, translates the
program’s instructions into a binary file that can then be
understood by the processor. However, low level programming
languages are still quite difficult to master. They force the
programmer to understand the way the computer works
internally.”

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