📝Why Python?

• Engineers need to be proficient in programming to work smarter not harder

• Programming is challenging and can be frustrating (at times) \(\rightarrow\) the struggles you have today will pay dividends in the future

• Python is a high-level language meaning complex processes can be achieved with just a few lines of code.

  • You can conduct detailed data analysis and visualization

  • You can develop and train an image classifier

  • You can do nearly anything you put your mind to

• Python is designed for readability with simple syntax

• Python is free and open source

  • You do not need to pay anything to install and use python

  • You can read all the gory details of how the code works

  • You can build tools and sell them as commercial products without obtaining licenses

• There is a huge developer base of packages for Python, if you can think of it someone has a package for it

• Python is lightweight and can work on any nearly any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc.)

• Python runs on an interpreter system, meaning that code can be executed as soon as it is written. This means that prototyping can be very quick.