Non-Developers Guide to the Python Programming Language

Fatih Erikli
12 min readJan 15, 2021

I am a software developer and a sociology student. I am writing this article as a sociology student and my intention for this article to be understood by everyone, not only developers.

Python is an interpreted programming language written in 1991 by the Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum. The most important feature distinguishes Python from other programming languages is that the whitespaces are also taken into the account in the grammatical structure of language in order to increase the code readability.

Guido van Rossum FACES OF OPEN SOURCE

It means that you can also manage the flow of the program with spaces. In this way, it will be more suitable for scanning the written code by eye, and if you follow the proposed design principles, it will be easier to scale your project in comparison with other programming languages. I prefer Python because of its enormous range of libraries, rather than the technical implications of the language. Python has the widest range of the diversification of the libraries. It’s commonly used in data science, astronomy, or even in biology.

Programming language network
Python language and it’s influences in programming language network. Click this link for the colorful version.

You can watch the programming language network on youtube too.

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Fatih Erikli

Notes from a never ending story. I am writing a Prolog interpreter currently.