Programming Python
Authors:
Tom Dunham
Date:
2009-03-31
This course
Assumes no knowledge of programming
Will get you writing basic Python programs
Suggests where to go to learn more
Python
A high-level programming language
Free
as in speech
as in beer
15 years old
Portable: Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac, OS/2, VMS, Cray....
Who Uses Python
AstraZenica
AlphaGene (a leader gene and protein discovery and gene expression technologies)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Which Python
At the moment, there are two Pythons
Python 2, which you will be learning
Python 3, which is new and improved but not very widespread yet.
Hello World
Try it:
print
"hello
world"