Learn Python Programming – From Beginner to Master

Description

Guido van Rossum began developing Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC programming language, with its initial release, Python 0.9.0, occurring in 1991. The language’s name is a tribute to the British comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Python has consistently ranked as one of the most popular programming languages and is widely used in the machine learning community and as an introductory programming language.

The latest stable release of Python, as of October 7, 2025, is Python 3.14.0, with Python 3.13.8 also released on the same day. Only versions in the 3.x series are currently supported, with Python 3.10 being the oldest supported release. Python 2.0 was released in 2000, and Python 3.0, a major revision not entirely backward-compatible, was released in 2008. Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the final release of Python 2, and it no longer receives security patches or updates.

Python’s design philosophy, summarized in the “Zen of Python” (PEP 20), advocates for principles such as “Explicit is better than implicit,” “Simple is better than complex,” and “Readability counts”. It is often referred to as a ‘glue language’ due to its ability to integrate components written in other languages. Python uses dynamic typing and a combination of reference counting and a cycle-detecting garbage collector for memory management.