For my industry event I attended a workshop of web development on Princeton University’s campus. This workshop is held every second Thursday of each month. The attendees range from people working in the industry for companies in the New York area, free lance web designers, and students interested in web development.
In the beginning we merely talked and mingled while refreshments were available and we got to know one another and learned each of our backgrounds. When the workshop started the organizers introduced the topic which was the prevalence of the coding language Python and the uses for web development. I sat in the back and listened because I did not know much about Python so I took notes and listened to these professionals.
Python is a coding language in which is very useful for web development because (as I learned) there is a very limited learning curve for those trained in Java C++ or C. They talked very fondly of the ease of use of Python and how it is soon to become an industry standard for web development because of the simplicity of the code. I learned Python code is much more efficient code because the coding lines are much shorter than other languages. For example in order to produce the same outcome the line of code in python compared to C++ takes much less characters to compose. This is important because it allows the code to be shorter as well as easier to go back and edit the code when a bug is detected.
In C++, a single program needs to get compiled on every operating system on which the code is to be run. Python provides the ability to ‘write once, run anywhere’ that enables it to run on all the operating systems which have Python installed. Another plus for Python compared to C++ is in C++, the developer needs to declare data type before using it. Therefore, it is less ambiguous regarding what the codes do, and error handling becomes easier than python. While writing code in Python, a user doesn’t need to mention the type of data before using it, consequently making the length of the code shorter and easier to maintain. For example, in C++, a user must declare int a=5 whereas in Python a=5 is sufficient. Therefore, Python is a much more efficient coding language.
Python is now the coding language most used for the sites we use everyday such as Google, Youtube, Dropbox, Instagram, and Spotify. All these sites were designed using python code and I learned it is a necessary language to have in the web developers arsenal if they want to work within a major tech company.
I forgot to take a picture!!! I’m sorry. But here is a picture of my notes.
