After reading lesson 3, you’ll be able to
- Understand Python,the programming language you’ll be using
- Use a program to write your programs
- Understand the components of a programming development environment
The Python programming language is, at the time of this writing, the most popular language for teaching introductory computer science. The language is used by top universities to expose students to programming, and many students are citing Python as a language they’re familiar with upon entering college. Broadly, Python is used to build applications and websites, and is being used behind the scenes by companies such as NASA, Google, Facebook, and Pinterest to maintain features and analyze collected data.
Python is a great general-purpose language that can be used to write quick and simple programs. After you set up a working environment, writing a program in Python doesn’t require much setup.
Python is a programming language created by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the Netherlands. But the name Python is also used to refer to the interpreter.
Definition
A Python interpreter is a program used to run programs written in the Python programming language.