1 00:00:00,390 --> 00:00:07,840 Hello and welcome to this video on what is Python python. 2 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:12,750 He's a general purpose programming language. 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:23,730 This means it can be used to write computer programs for various things like games data science websites 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,180 and so on Python. 5 00:00:26,670 --> 00:00:37,320 He's also a high level programming language high level programming languages mean that the languages 6 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:48,480 of writing computer instructions in a way that is easily understandable and close to human language 7 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:59,640 python is portable which means we can run python programs in the various different operating systems 8 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:08,800 like Windows Mac OS Linux without any changes. 9 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:13,800 Python is an interpreted language. 10 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:24,540 Python is called an interpreted language because it goes through an interpreter which turns code you 11 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:38,400 write into the language understood by your computer's processor python is strongly typed strongly typed 12 00:01:38,610 --> 00:01:47,310 languages don't convert data from one type to another type automatically. 13 00:01:47,310 --> 00:02:00,180 Python has a huge set of libraries a python library is a collection of programs you can incorporate 14 00:02:00,450 --> 00:02:06,030 into your own program without writing code for them. 15 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:11,610 Let's take a look at a list of application types. 16 00:02:11,610 --> 00:02:17,340 You can create with Python web applications. 17 00:02:17,340 --> 00:02:28,620 These are applications you can access using a web browser Android applications these are applications 18 00:02:28,620 --> 00:02:35,740 that runs on Android devices like Android phones and tablets. 19 00:02:36,090 --> 00:02:47,400 Games you can create various types of games with Python scientific applications you can create various 20 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:57,660 types of scientific applications with Python sys administration applications so you can use python to 21 00:02:57,660 --> 00:03:04,660 create applications to monitor various types of systems. 22 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:14,700 You can also create console applications a console application basically is a computer program designed 23 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:21,180 to be used via a text on the computer interface. 24 00:03:21,180 --> 00:03:31,540 Let's take a look at a list of software applications that have been created using Python. 25 00:03:31,650 --> 00:03:36,600 So some of these are quite famous and popular. 26 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:42,720 First on the list is YouTube and then we have Google. 27 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,670 We have Dropbox. 28 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:55,320 This program lets you save files to a cloud based service that you can then access from anywhere in 29 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:56,790 the world. 30 00:03:56,790 --> 00:03:59,170 We've also got Reddit. 31 00:03:59,190 --> 00:04:09,170 Reddit is one of the biggest open communities on the Web you have a question you want to talk about 32 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:17,000 something specific or if you want to find tons of information regarding a particular topic. 33 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:25,770 For example gardening or anything you can just look on Reddit and find related information. 34 00:04:25,790 --> 00:04:27,950 Next we have Spotify. 35 00:04:27,980 --> 00:04:35,030 Spotify allows you to listen to ad free music of your choice. 36 00:04:35,030 --> 00:04:41,770 This is a streaming service that allows you to stream music without any advertisement. 37 00:04:41,780 --> 00:04:44,180 Finally we've got Instagram. 38 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:47,230 Instagram is very popular. 39 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:53,540 It had both an app side and also a Web site as well. 40 00:04:53,570 --> 00:05:02,090 These are just a few list items of software that were created using Python. 41 00:05:02,090 --> 00:05:07,840 There are so many others but these are just some few that you may have come across. 42 00:05:08,060 --> 00:05:14,210 So that is it for this video on what is Python. 43 00:05:14,210 --> 00:05:15,440 Thanks for watching. 44 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:16,160 Bye for now.