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In a recent talk I said something that upset a lot of people: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. It's a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.

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Thanks for visiting! Learn how to make a simple game with Python! This is a post by Tutorial Team Member Julian Meyer, a 13-year-old python developer. You can find him on Google+ and Twitter. Have you ever wondered how video games are created? In this tutorial, you’ll create a simple game called Bunnies and Badgers, where the hero, the bunny, has to defend a castle against an attacking horde of badgers. Python game development tutorial - 1 - introduction. Python game development tutorial purpongie. Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python. Computer science.

The “Invent with Python” Blog. I've written an article for OpenSource.com called APIs, not apps: What the future will be like when everyone can code, where I write about a coming future where programming ability is in the hands of everyone.

Excerpt: Despite this hype, I do think that coding will become a more widespread and routine skill in the years to come. Programmable technology will continue to pervade more parts of our life, computers will continue to become more accessible to a wider population, and the world will continue to become more complex. Understanding coding (and debugging) will naturally go with it....These are areas where non-programmers can significantly boost their productivity by learning to code. This is different from everyone becoming a software engineer. How to:python programming under Ubuntu. If you are new to python programming and if you’re using ubuntu linux as your operating system then you can start programming easily as Ubuntu comes up with the command line version of python pre-installed.

Ubuntu community develops its own tools and scripts under python,so you can learn a lot from the community. Official Community also offers bounties on some of its python projects. So in that way you can also get in touch with the experienced python developers. In python you have two choices to learn how to program, one is with command line version and another is IDLE. I’ll explain both these methods one by one. Command Line Command line version of python is already installed in Ubuntu. You can also write the program with help of text editor like gedit or Emacs. Or you can use exit(); or CTRL-D This will exit from the interpreter and return back to the terminal.IDLE If you don’t want to use the command line version of python then there is another choice “IDLE”. Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6. Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6 From Wikibooks, open books for an open world Jump to: navigation, search For Python 3, see Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3.

Contents[edit] Authors Contributors to this book Front matter Initial remarks Intro Installing and using Python – where to get help Hello, World The famous first program – screen output – numbers and calculations Who Goes There? Interactive input – strings. Python Tutorials, more than 300, updated March 2, 2009 and carefully sorted by topic and category. Python - Quick Guide. Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object oriented-scripting language.

Python is InterpretedPython is InteractivePython is Object-OrientedPython is Beginner's Language Python was developed by Guido van Rossum in the late eighties and early nineties at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. Instant Python. This is a minimal crash-course in the programming language Python.

To learn more, take a look at the documentation at the Python web site, www.python.org; especially the tutorial. If you wonder why you should be interested, check out the comparison page where Python is compared to other languages. This introduction has been translated into several languages, among them Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, Lithuanian, Japanese, German and Greek, and is currently being translated into Norwegian, Polish, and Korean. Since this document still might undergo changes, these translations may not always be up to date. Note: To get the examples working properly, write the programs in a text file and then run that with the interpreter; do not try to run them directly in the interactive interpreter - not all of them will work.