Python 3 Tutorial
Guido van Rossum
The designer of Python,
Python is a general-purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language, designed and developed by Guido van Rossum at The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands and released in 1991.
Python is derived from many other languages, including Modula-3, C, C++, Algol-68, SmallTalk, and UNIX shell and other scripting languages.
Python is copyrighted. Like Perl, Python source code is now available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Python is now maintained by a core development team at the institute, although Guido van Rossum still holds a vital role in directing its progress.
This tutorial is designed for software programmers who need to learn Python programming language from scratch.
To learn Python, you should have a basic understanding of Computer Programming terminologies. A basic understanding of any programming languages is an added advantage.
Python is the fastest growing language in terms of number of developers, who are using it, in terms of libraries, in term of number of companies who are using it and in term of the areas you can implement it, like Machine learning, AI, Software development, web development & many more, thats why it is called as general purpose language.
Many popular website uses Python like Google, YouTube, Yahoo, and many more are using python as main or supported language. Reddit is written on Python.
The Language name it as Python, the reason behind it is the Author is a big fan of British comedy movie called as Monty Python Flying Circus.
Python Version History
| Version | Release Date |
|---|---|
| Python 0.9.0 | February 1991 |
| Python 1.0 | January 1994 |
| Python 2.0 | October 2000 |
| Python 2.7.0 | July 2010 |
| Python 3 | December 2008 |
| Python 3.6 | December 2016 |
| Python 3.7.0 | May 2018 |
| Python 3.8 | October 2019 |
| Python 3.9 | October 2020 |
| Python 3.10 | October 2021 |
