Python Introduction

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What is Python

 Python is a High Level Language. And it is also an Interpreted and Object Oriented Language. Since this is an interpreted language you do not need to compile your program before executing. The program will process at the runtime. Since python is an Object Oriented Programming language we can use Inheritance, Encapsulation, and Polymorphism. [These are described in Object Oriented Concept Topic]

Why Python

Python is refers as a scripting language. But it can also used as non scripting programming language also. Python is very easy to learn language and easy to read and understand language. It has lot of in build libraries that helps programmers easy to program. It has capability of connecting to any kind of databases and do programming.

Install Python (Windows)

Step 01

            Download Python by going to this page. There are lot of python versions in this page. It should be better if you can download the new release according to your machine specification. But for this lesson I have installed 2.4 release and 2.7 release. Most of the time I used 2.7 release.

            To download click here. PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Step 02

            After download go to the download folder and double click it and follow the instruction. Then you can easily install python.

Start Python

1) Go to start menu and go to start ----> All Programs ----> Python 2.7. If you use windows 7 you can simply type python in start menu as following screen shot.

2) Then this is the normal GUI version of the python [Click ILDE (Python GUI) in above selections]

3) And this is the command prompt of the python. [Click Python (command line) in above selections]

From Next Lesson on words let's Look at How to Programming Using Python. For refer Python 

Syllabus Go to this page. Python Syllabus

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