INTRODUCTION ON PYTHON

Python is a powerful and general purpose programming language developed by Guido van Rossum ( 1989 ). Guido van Rossum developed python language at mathematical research institute called "CWI" (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica). CWI is located at Netherland. Guido developed python language by taking the different language features like -

• Procedure Oriented Programming Language - C
• Object Oriented Programming Language - C++, Java
• Scripting Language - Shell Script, Perl
• Modular Programming language - Modula 3

Note : Guido van Rossum make it available Python language to the public in 1991.

By using Python language we can do the following things -

• GUI application development.
• Web application development.
• Data analytics.
• Task automation.
• Test cases implementation.
• Scientific application development.
• Network application development.
• Gaming / Animation application development.

Note : Most of the people are calling Python is a scripting language because the way of developing Python applications and execution of Python applications are similar to the scripting languages.

Difference between Scripting and Programming language.

1. Scripting language are Interpreter based language, Programming language are compiler based languages.
2. Scripting language programs (or) applications explicit compilation is not required, Programming language requires explicit compilation.
3. Scripting language programs (or) applications directly we can run, Programming language programs (or) applications we can not run without compiling.
4. Scripting language programs (or) applications takes longer time to execute, Programming language programs (or) applications takes less time to execute.
5. Scripting language examples are - Shell script, Perl etc, Programming language examples are - C, C++, Java, .net etc...