Hello and welcome to this video on what is Python python.
He's a general purpose programming language.
This means it can be used to write computer programs for various things like games data science websites
and so on Python.
He's also a high level programming language high level programming languages mean that the languages
of writing computer instructions in a way that is easily understandable and close to human language
python is portable which means we can run python programs in the various different operating systems
like Windows Mac OS Linux without any changes.
Python is an interpreted language.
Python is called an interpreted language because it goes through an interpreter which turns code you
write into the language understood by your computer's processor python is strongly typed strongly typed
languages don't convert data from one type to another type automatically.
Python has a huge set of libraries a python library is a collection of programs you can incorporate
into your own program without writing code for them.
Let's take a look at a list of application types.
You can create with Python web applications.
These are applications you can access using a web browser Android applications these are applications
that runs on Android devices like Android phones and tablets.
Games you can create various types of games with Python scientific applications you can create various
types of scientific applications with Python sys administration applications so you can use python to
create applications to monitor various types of systems.
You can also create console applications a console application basically is a computer program designed
to be used via a text on the computer interface.
Let's take a look at a list of software applications that have been created using Python.
So some of these are quite famous and popular.
First on the list is YouTube and then we have Google.
We have Dropbox.
This program lets you save files to a cloud based service that you can then access from anywhere in
the world.
We've also got Reddit.
Reddit is one of the biggest open communities on the Web you have a question you want to talk about
something specific or if you want to find tons of information regarding a particular topic.
For example gardening or anything you can just look on Reddit and find related information.
Next we have Spotify.
Spotify allows you to listen to ad free music of your choice.
This is a streaming service that allows you to stream music without any advertisement.
Finally we've got Instagram.
Instagram is very popular.
It had both an app side and also a Web site as well.
These are just a few list items of software that were created using Python.
There are so many others but these are just some few that you may have come across.
So that is it for this video on what is Python.
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