Introduction to and setup of Python

Lesson One

Python is a great language to start programming with for several reasons

It's free
It's fun to learn
It is used by many companies and even companies that don't write in Python want programmers that know Python because that shows that they are there because they like programming, not the income programming can provide.

Goto Python.org to find out more about what you can get for free, but you can get a lot. It also has links to books that you can pay for, But I'm hopeing that I can provide enough information that you won't need to buy a book.

Python teaches using fun things like how to make an omelet instead of how to combine 'foo' and 'bar'. If you've ever learned another language you know what I am talking about.

Peter Norvig, Google says this about Python "Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. " Nasa also uses Python and so do a growing number of other businesses.

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