introduction with this textbook you will learn basic python programming the textbook contains lots of examples and self-paced tasks that the users should go through and solve in their own pace you will find additional resources on my blog/web site [ my web site about python issee figure the new age of programming the way we create software today has changed dramatically the last yearsfrom the childhood of personal computers in the early to today' powerful devices such as smartphonestablets and pcs the internet has also changed the way we use devices and software we still have traditional desktop applicationsbut web sitesweb applications and socalled apps for smartphonesetc are dominating the software market today we need to find and learn programming languages that are suitable for the new age of programming we have today several thousand different programming languagesso why should we learn pythoni guess you will need to learn more than one programming language to survive in today' software market python is easy to learnso it it good starting point for new programmers python is an interpretedhigh-levelgeneral-purpose programming language created by guido van rossum and first released in [