Python

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Mikhail Panko edited this page Jul 14, 2013 · 6 revisions

Python - a popular general-purpose high-level user-friendly programming language. It is widely used for scientific programming and developing web and desktop applications.

Advantages

Free
Has a huge number of packages for any need
Has a great community of programmers to find answers to all of your questions
Is used outside of academia a lot (easy to find a Python developer job)
Great GUI toolkits
Great OOP support

Disadvantages

Not easy to install on Windows
Need to assemble editing, debugging, and plotting tools from external packages yourself
Need to import Math packages
Occasionally, some packages don't work well together

Code editors / IDEs

Sublime Text 2 - smart, powerful, easy to learn, and popular text editor for code

Tutorials