python for artificial intelligence why pythonwe use python because python programs can be close to pseudo-code it is designed for humans to read python is reasonably efficient efficiency is usually not problem for small examples if your python code is not efficient enougha general procedure to improve it is to find out what is taking most the timeand implement just that part more efficiently in some lower-level language most of these lowerlevel languages interoperate with python nicely this will result in much less programming and more efficient code (because you will have more time to optimizethan writing everything in low-level language you will not have to do that for the code here if you are using it for course projects getting python you need python (org/that runs with python this code is not compatible with python ( with python download and istall the latest python release from this should also install pip you can install matplotlib using pip install matplotlib in terminal shell (not in pythonthat should "just workif nottry using pip instead of pip the command python or python should then start the interactive python shell you can quit python with control- or with quit(