Learning Python is your best investment for the future.
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Editor’s note: Life is short, Python is shore. In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Python has been on fire, but in fact Python is not a young language. It appeared as early as 1991. This programming language has been in development for many years and will continue to maintain its position for the foreseeable future. Now is the world of Python, taking the time to learn the Python programming language will be your best investment for the future. This article was translated from Medium, author Rinu Gour, originally titled “We are Living in “The Era of Python””, I hope to inspire you.
In 1989, after Guido van Rossum participated in the design of ABC (a language of instruction), he came up with the idea of developing a new language. In 1989 he founded the Python language. In early 1991, Python announced the first public release.
Do you know?
The Python programming language is not young at all. It was first released in 1991 by the Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum.
The interesting thing about Python is that he is the result of a person’s work, and most other popular programming languages are developed and distributed by large companies that employ a large number of professionals. Python is an exception!
Of course, not all of Python’s components were developed by Van Rossum alone. It’s an open source project, and thousands of people have contributed to the development of Python. Although Python has made great progress after years of development, its purpose of use is not much different from that of the year.
The birth of Python
The main purpose of developing Python is to help programmers write logically clear code. That’s why it’s so popular among developers. Python is very powerful and can be used for web development, game development, scripting and GUI for desktop applications.I. Configure the server, perform scientific calculations, and perform data analysis.
Python can be used for almost anything!
Among these major programming languages, Python has grown very rapidly in recent years. The Stack Overflow developer survey shows that Python is the fastest growing mainstream programming language.
So what happened in these years? Why is python so fast?
That is because the development of the following technologies has promoted the rapid use of the Python language.
Python – the best choice for AI
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology have surpassed science fiction.
As Chris Duffey said in his book Superhuman Innovati,
“The only limitation of artificial intelligence is human imagination.”
Today, as data volumes expand, artificial intelligence and machine learning are dealing with tasks that seemed impossible in the past. All technology giants (Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) are actively working on data, scrambling to contribute to the development of these areas.
According to research, artificial intelligence and machine learning practitioners prefer to use Python because Python is easy to code and read, so we won’t be bothered by the language structure.
Python is the backbone of data science
The world is full of data. Data on a global scale is like a tsunami, and the amount of data is getting bigger every day. Everything we do now can produce data. Whether it’s taking photos, posting comments on social media, searching online, shopping online… all of this will be recorded.
< Span> By 2020, it is expected to generate 44 megabytes of data per day. But if we can’t collect, organize, analyze, and apply data to benefit society, the data is useless. This is also the use of data science.
Python is heavily used in data science. The python community has developed excellent libraries for working with data such as Numpy, pandas, sci-kit-learn, and more. Python provides a rich set of features to perform these tasks in collecting data, cleaning data sets, extracting important features, building machine learning models, and using graphical visualization results.
“The work of data scientists is becoming more and more fascinating,” said Andrew Flowers, an economist and report author at Indeed. “More and more employers want to hire data scientists.”
Github conducts an annual survey every year, let’s see how Python has grown over the years.
Large companies like Spotify, Netflix, Quora, Facebook and Google have developed Python . Google has supported Python since its inception, and it is now the official server-side language for Google. They recoded many scripts written in Bash or Perl to Python.
Google’s research director Peter Norvig said: “ From the beginning, Python has been an important part of Google, and as the system evolved and evolved, so far. Today, many Google engineers use Python, and we are also looking for more people who can master the language skills.”
Spotify and Netflix rely heavily on Python to analyze their huge amount of data on the server side. byBy analyzing information from millions of users, they can provide better advice to each user, which is how they earn billions of dollars in profits.
Python is not a young language, it has been in development for many years and will continue to maintain its place in the coming years. Now is the world of Python, taking the time to learn the Python programming language will be your best investment for the future.
Translator: Jane
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