This content originally appeared on Mashable for a US audience and has been adapted for the UK audience. Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over the ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...

Why write ten lines of code when one will do? From magic variable swaps to high-speed data counting, these Python snippets ...

Foundations of Python Programming, a new course from the University of Delaware’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies (UD PCS), starts Feb. 3. This self-paced, flexible online course, ...

I’ve loved working with computers since I was a little kid. I remember learning some basic code in middle school, but my interests never developed because I spent all of my time playing sports. That ...

Have you been wishing your budget had a little more room for fun after the last 18 months or so of challenges? Then maybe it's time to finally switch to that highly-paid tech career you've been ...

Find out what makes Python a versatile powerhouse for modern software development—from data science to machine learning, systems automation, web and API development, and more. It may seem odd to ...

So I got to work fairly quickly. Python was already installed on my Linux laptop. I added NumPy (think “numbers” and “Python” — a package for numerical/scientific computing in Python) plus ...

Programmers use the Python programming language to develop applications for use in Web and desktop environments. Python facilitates this through its extensive collection of libraries and the ...