Check out this introductory presentation on why the Python language should be the next coding language you learn!

1. THE PYTHON
THAT WON’T
CONSTRICT YOU

2. WHY PYTHON?
Popularity: Standard libraries + third party
extensions = enormous amount of uses
Ease of use
Clean, easy to read syntax

3. PYTHON IS POPULAR
Source: TIOBE

4. PYTHON IS POPULAR
Source: Ohloh

5. PYTHON IS EVERYWHERE

6. PYTHON IS EASY
Low barrier to entry –
not much code needed to get the job done

7. PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

8. PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

9. PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

10. PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

11. PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

12. PYTHON IS CLEAN AND POWERFUL

13. WHAT ELSE?
The new Perl
– all around glue and utility language for small tasks
Rise in the science/data/analytical realm
– SciPy, NumPy make data manipulation and
analysis very easy
§ Some claim easier than R

14. LEARN MORE
Codecademy
Fix our poker engine
Build a microservice using flask
Next time you reach for a bash script
to solve a problem give python a whirl
IDE options: PyDev (eclipse), PyCharm
QUESTIONS?