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Title: Looking for newbies that want to learn Python
Post by: sam on December 11, 2009, 02:55

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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.

http://www.themaemo.com/python-for-newbies/


Since I've been working at UofC I've grown rapidly to Python, its pretty excellent.

Title: Re: Looking for newbies that want to learn Python
Post by: GillE on December 11, 2009, 03:22

Very reminiscent of the BASIC I used on my Commodore 64 :) . 

Title: Re: Looking for newbies that want to learn Python
Post by: sam on December 11, 2009, 14:50

Quote from: GillE on December 11, 2009, 03:22

Very reminiscent of the BASIC I used on my Commodore 64 :) . 

I guess so, python is supposed to be nice and simple and you dont have to compile the code to get it to work - it has some very nice array operations that also make it fast... still though not as fast as FORTRAN or C.