Why Python rocks?

Python is legit

Not that long ago when you were considering diving into programming you could choose from the C… or J… languages. But lately you have the whole range of letters. One is P like Python. I know, I know, they say it’s too slow, inefficient, only for small projects. But guess what they’re wrong. Now we can build any business logic with it.

Just scripting tool

As alternative to bash, sh

Data science

• SciPy
  At the beginning it was the name of library. Now it’s the whole ecosystem, which is a collection of packages like:
  NumPy – Base N-dimensional array package
  SciPy library – Fundamental library for scientific computing
  Matplotlib – Comprehensive 2D Plotting
  IPython – Enhanced Interactive Console
  Sympy – Symbolic mathematics
  pandas – Data structures & analysis

• scikit-learn
  Build on top of SciPy, Machine Learning tool
• Conda
  This is a package, dependency and environment management system. Python optimised version is called Anaconda (or bootstrap version Miniconda).

Web Frameworks

• Django
  Full-Stack Framework

• Flask
  Microframework

Running on every platform

• BeeWare
  Allows to release Python written app on multiple platforms.