Anton Kasyanov will be giving a weekly introduction to Python lecture on Wednesdays at 4:15pm. He wants to share his knowledge of Python and improve students' English. Python is a high-level programming language that is easy to read and supports multiple paradigms. It has automatic memory management and is cross-platform. Major companies like Google use Python for web development, databases, GUIs, and more.

1. Introduction to Python
Lecture 1
Kasyanov Anton
IASA 2011

2. Why do I do this?
 I like Python and English
 I want to do something useful for you
 I want to share my knowledge
 Summer school experience

3. Why English?
 New different experience
 Good job needs good English
 Language of IT is English
 I want it to be so

4. Course details
 Every Wednesday 16.15 o'clock
 One hour length
 Breaks?
 Ask questions even in Russian/Ukrainian
 Practice here and at home

5. Contacts
 Group KA-05
 Phone: 066-595-23-25
 E-mail: mind_master@ukr.net
 Vk: vkontakte.ru/mindmaster

6. Again
 Ask questions
 Don't be shy
 Don't be afraid if your English is not perfect
 I do mistakes too

7. Python

8. What is Python?
 Python is a high-level programming language
whose design philosophy emphasizes code
readability.
 Python supports multiple programming
paradigms.
 It features a fully dynamic type system and
automatic memory management.
 Scripting language but can be packaged into
executable files (e.g. py2exe).

9. What else?
 Python is cross-platform.
 Very strong but elegant.
 Batteries included – Python is served with
libraries for almost everything.
 Developers describe it like “beautiful”, “explicit”
and “simple”.

10. Integration
 Python can integrate with COM, .NET, and
CORBA objects.
 For Java libraries, use Jython, an
implementation of Python for the Java Virtual
Machine.
 For .NET, try IronPython , Microsoft's new
implementation of Python for .NET
 Modules for Python can be written using C/C++

11. Available platforms
 Windows
 Linux/Unix
 OS/2
 Mac
 Nokia S60
 Android

12. Web development
 CGI scripts
 Creating sites/web apps using frameworks like
Django or TurboGears
 Extensive support for HTML and XML
 E-mail processing
 Support for many other Internet protocols.
 Low-level network programming (Twisted).

13. Database acess
 Libraries to simply interact with MySQL, Oracle,
MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL

14. Desktop GUI
 Tk
 WxWidgets
 GTK+
 Qt

15. Who uses Python?
 Google
 BitTorrent
 Yahoo!
 CERN
 NASA
 IBM
 DreamWorks

16. Python 2 and 3
 Two actual versions
 Python 3 is more developed
 No backports!
 Not all Python 2 libraries are ported to Python 3
 I'll tell about Python 2

17. IDEs
 Terminal
 Gedit/TextMate/Notepad++ or any other
notepad application
 Netbeans (plugin)
 PyDev (plugin for Eclipse)
 XCode
 PyCharm

18. Useful links
 http://www.python.org/
 http://stackoverflow.com/
 http://habrahabr.ru/
 http://www.google.com/

19. Demonstration
 Factorial program

20. Thank you for your attention!