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JavaScript is essential for web development, enabling updates to HTML and CSS, as well as data manipulation. Python, created in 1991, is a versatile programming language used for web development, software development, and data handling, known for its readability and simplicity. Both languages are crucial for developers, with JavaScript focusing on web behavior and Python offering a wide range of applications across different platforms.

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What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is the programming language of the web.

It can update and change both HTML and CSS.

It can calculate, manipulate and validate data.

Why Study JavaScript?

JavaScript is one of the 3 languages all web developers
must learn:

1. HTML to define the content of web pages

2. CSS to specify the layout of web pages

3. JavaScript to program the behavior of web pages

What is Python?

Python is a popular programming language. It was created by Guido van

Rossum, and released in 1991.

It is used for:

 web development (server-side),

 software development,

 mathematics,

 system scripting.

What can Python do?

 Python can be used on a server to create web applications.

 Python can be used alongside software to create workflows.

 Python can connect to database systems. It can also read and modify
files.

 Python can be used to handle big data and perform complex

mathematics.

 Python can be used for rapid prototyping, or for production-ready

software development.

Why Python?

 Python works on different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry

Pi, etc).

 Python has a simple syntax similar to the English language.

 Python has syntax that allows developers to write programs with fewer
lines than some other programming languages.

 Python runs on an interpreter system, meaning that code can be

executed as soon as it is written. This means that prototyping can be
very quick.

 Python can be treated in a procedural way, an object-oriented way or a

functional way.

Good to know

 The most recent major version of Python is Python 3, which we shall be

using in this tutorial. However, Python 2, although not being updated
with anything other than security updates, is still quite popular.

 In this tutorial Python will be written in a text editor. It is possible to

write Python in an Integrated Development Environment, such as
Thonny, Pycharm, Netbeans or Eclipse which are particularly useful
when managing larger collections of Python files.

Python Syntax compared to other programming languages

 Python was designed for readability, and has some similarities to the
English language with influence from mathematics.

 Python uses new lines to complete a command, as opposed to other

programming languages which often use semicolons or parentheses.
 Python relies on indentation, using whitespace, to define scope; such
as the scope of loops, functions and classes. Other programming
languages often use curly-brackets for this purpose.