How I Became a Python Programmer—and Fell Out of Love With the Machine When I started coding, I was suspicious of all the abstractions. Then I discovered the Django framework.

The classic programming exercise of printing 'Hello, world!' to the screen is as simple as it can be in Python — just type print(“Hello, world!”) at a Python prompt and hit Enter.

How Python simplifies programming. Python’s syntax is meant to be readable and clean, with little pretense. A standard “hello world” in Python 3.x is nothing more than: ...