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    This document introduces Python and discusses its uses and advantages. It notes that Python is easy to learn, allows for rapid development, and has many prewritten modules. Popular uses of Python include video games, first person shooter franchises, and scientific applications. The document then presents "The Zen of Python", which outlines Python philosophies. It describes programming languages as low-level (Assembly), high-level (C), or scripting (Python, Perl) and their key characteristics. It provides an overview of how the Python interpreter works by reading, evaluating, and printing code. Useful Python functions like dir() and help() are also introduced, along with Python documentation.

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    This document introduces Python and discusses its uses and advantages. It notes that Python is easy to learn, allows for rapid development, and has many prewritten modules. Popular uses of Python include video games, first person shooter franchises, and scientific applications. The document then presents "The Zen of Python", which outlines Python philosophies. It describes programming languages as low-level (Assembly), high-level (C), or scripting (Python, Perl) and their key characteristics. It provides an overview of how the Python interpreter works by reading, evaluating, and printing code. Useful Python functions like dir() and help() are also introduced, along with Python documentation.

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    This document introduces Python and discusses its uses and advantages. It notes that Python is easy to learn, allows for rapid development, and has many prewritten modules. Popular uses of Python include video games, first person shooter franchises, and scientific applications. The document then presents "The Zen of Python", which outlines Python philosophies. It describes programming languages as low-level (Assembly), high-level (C), or scripting (Python, Perl) and their key characteristics. It provides an overview of how the Python interpreter works by reading, evaluating, and printing code. Useful Python functions like dir() and help() are also introduced, along with Python documentation.

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    Part One

    Introductory Python
    Why use Python?
    ● Python is one of the easiest languages to
    learn.
    ● It allows for rapid development and testing -
    essential abilities for the security
    professional
    ● There are a ton of prewritten modules that
    you can easily import.
    Who uses Python?
    ● Eve Online - a very popular MMORPG was written with
    a Python variation called stackless.
    ● Battlefield - one of the most popular FPS franchises in
    the world has used Python for add-ons and chunks of
    the games’ core functionality.
    ● SymPy - a handy Python library which is often used in
    the scientific world for quick algebra.
    The Zen of Python
    Beautiful is better than ugly.
    Explicit is better than implicit.
    Simple is better than complex.
    Complex is better than complicated.
    Flat is better than nested.
    Sparse is better than dense.
    Readability counts.
    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
    Although practicality beats purity.
    Errors should never pass silently.
    Unless explicitly silenced.
    In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
    Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
    Now is better than never.
    Although never is often better than right now.
    If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
    If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
    Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
    —Tim Peters
    Python, C, and ASM
    There are 3 widely recognized levels of programming: low-level (Assembly) ,
    high-level (C) , and scripting (Python, Perl, et al.). There are a few important
    characteristics of each:

    ● low-level - Closest to the processor, hardest to write/read, most efficient and


    powerful.
    ● high-level - A comfortable middle ground, low-level enough to compile into Assembly
    and get some of the power, but there are some efficiency losses when the compiler
    optimizes poorly.
    ● scripting - Furthest from the processor, these usually require some sort of interpreter
    (and are often called interpreted languages as a result), they’re inefficient relative to
    low or high - level languages, but are much easier to read and write
    The Python interpreter
    ● A fully-fledged, Turing-complete virtual
    computer (Not exactly, but it’s easier to think
    of it as one), the Python Interpreter is what
    executes a python program.
    ● Can be used to quickly script a task.
    ● Has a built in destructor and garbage-
    collector
    The Python Interpreter (CONT)
    Operates on a REP loop.
    ● R - read, take in a line of code
    ● E - Evaluate, turn the code into something
    the computer can understand, and execute
    it.
    ● P - Print, show the result
    The Python Interpreter Demo
    You may not understand all of this, it’s alright.
    This is just to demonstrate the interpreter and
    its utility.
    dir() & help()
    ● dir() - returns the list of names in the current scope
    ● dir(object) - lists the object’s attributes
    ● help() - starts the interactive “help” routine on an
    interpreter
    ● help(object) - Looks up the item as the name of a
    module, function, class, method, keyword, or
    documentation topic, and a help page is printed on the
    console.
    Python Manuals (pydocs)
    A glorious series of documents detailing
    everything native to Python. If it arrived in your
    Python download, it’s covered in help. These
    docs are phenomenal, and should be used
    often.
    LET’S GET STARTED!!!

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