A short course in python. This will be directed to people that do not know any kind of programming language, or those who desire to learn a good scripting language like python.
This will be a single notebook with diffent topics with short examples. Following the tutorial will be two larger programs that will use what presented in the sections together.
Python was created by Guido van Rossum in the late eighties and early nineties at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. It is a high-level programming language. Meaning that the words and syntax that make up the language is very close to english. It is also an interactive language due to the prompt that comes with it. And finally Python is Object-Oriented(will be explained), which is a programming technique using the idea of encapsulating code within objects.