Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Jason Brigg's Python for Kids (No Starch Press, 2012).

Learn Python the Hard Way has everything you need to start programming in Python. Tip #3 Make the Computer Talk Here’s my main hack to get kids to pay attention, make the computer talk!

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

Python is in fact a popular choice for introductory programming classes in general. boxed-text The community aspect is particularly important to Python's growing adoption.

While Microsoft's NASA lesson doesn't offer any actual lessons in Python programming, the company has previously released free video tutorials for those that do aim to learn Python.

Despite a rocky transition from Python 2 to Python 3, developers are still flocking to the programming language.

For the second year in a row, the Tiobe index identified Python as the programming language whose popularity increased the most.

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