Not necessarily for the data-science and machine-learning communities built around Python extensions like NumPy and SciPy, but as a general programming language.

Python, the programming language that found a home in machine learning, is now the most popular language, according to one popularity ranking. Programming languages rise and fall in popularity ...

Topics: Introduction to programming, instructions in interactive mode, scripts, data types, control structures Functions, modules, modelling with collections (tuples, lists, quantities, dictionaries) ...