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INTRODUCTION

History of Python- Introduction to the IDLE interpreter (shell) -Expressions –


Data Types - Built-in function - Conditional statements - Iterative statements-
Input/output -Compound Data Types - Nested compound statements – Introduction
to Object Oriented Concepts
1. Program

A program performs a task in the computer. But, in order to be


executed, a program must be written in the machine language of the processor
of a computer. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult for humans to read or
write a machine language program. This is because a machine language
is entirely made up of sequences of bits. However, high level languages
are close to natural languages like English and only use familiar
mathematical characters, operators and expressions. Hence, people prefer to
write programs in high level languages like C, C++, Java, or Python. A high
level program is translated into machine language by translators like compiler
or interpreter.

a. About Python

Python is a high level programming language that is translated by the


python interpreter. As is known,an interpreter works by translating line-by-
line and executing. It was developed by Guido-van-rossum in 1990, at
the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer
Science in Netherlands. Python doesn’t refer to the snake but was
named after the famous British comedy troupe, Monty Python’s Flying
Circus.

The following are some of the features of Python:

 Python is an Open Source: It is freely downloadable, from the link


“http:// python.org/”
 Python is portable: It runs on different operating systems / platforms3
 Python has automatic memory management
 Python is flexible with both procedural oriented and object
oriented programming
 Python is easy to learn, read and maintain

It is very flexible with the console program, Graphical User Interface (GUI)
applications, Web related programs etc.

POINTS TO REMEMBERWHILE WRITING A PYTHON PROGRAM

 Case sensitive : Example - In case of print statement use only


lower case and not upper case, (See the snippet below)

Fig1. Print Statement

 Punctuation is not required at end of the statement


 In case ofstring use single or double quotes i.e. ‘ ’ or “ ”
 Must use proper indentation:The screen shotsgiven below show, how
the value of “i” behaves with indentation and without indentation.
Fig 2 indentation

 Special characters like (,),# etc.are used

 () ->Used in opening and closing parameters of functions

 #-> The Pound sign is used to comment a line

1.2 TWO MODES OF PYTHON PROGRAM

Python Program can be executed in two different modes:

 Interactive mode programming

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