won' really start programming per se until but make sure you have handle on the startup details before moving on test your knowledgequiz in this edition of the bookwe will be closing each with quick open-book quiz about the material presented herein to help you review the key concepts the answers for these quizzes appear immediately after the questionsand you are encouraged to read the answers once you've taken crack at the questions yourselfas they sometimes give useful context in addition to these end-of-quizzesyou'll find lab exercises at the end of each part of the bookdesigned to help you start coding python on your own for nowhere' your first quiz good luckand be sure to refer back to this material as needed what are the six main reasons that people choose to use python name four notable companies or organizations using python today why might you not want to use python in an application what can you do with python what' the significance of the python import this statement why does "spamshow up in so many python examples in books and on the web what is your favorite colortest your knowledgeanswers how did you dohere are the answers came up withthough there may be multiple solutions to some quiz questions againeven if you're sure of your answeri encourage you to look at mine for additional context see the text for more details if any of these responses don' make sense to you software qualitydeveloper productivityprogram portabilitysupport librariescomponent integrationand simple enjoyment of thesethe quality and productivity themes seem to be the main reasons that people choose to use python googleindustrial light magicccp gamesjet propulsion labsmayaesriand many more almost every organization doing software development uses python in some fashionwhether for long-term strategic product development or for short-term tactical tasks such as testing and system administration python' main downside is performanceit won' run as quickly as fully compiled languages like and +on the other handit' quick enough for most applicationsand typical python code runs at close to speed anyhow because it invokes test your knowledgeanswers