Find out what makes Python a versatile powerhouse for modern software development—from data science to machine learning, systems automation, web and API development, and more. It may seem odd to ...

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Open-source programming language Python has become one of the few languages that won't disappear anytime soon. It's the top or one of the top two languages in most notable language popularity indexes, ...

A complete guide to choosing the right Python distribution, the right Python IDE, and the right supporting tools to jumpstart your Python programming. Python is often described as an easy ...

The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively ...

I work in a lab where laptops are pervasive. They pushed out calculators, which decades earlier did the same to slide rules. As calculators become more powerful, for some jobs the Prime could be more ...

Not every programmer likes creating GUI code. Most hacker types don’t mind a command line interface, but very few ordinary users appreciate them. However, if you write command line programs in Python, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt ...