New extension pack bundles VS Code extensions for Python language support, Jupyter notebooks, data wrangling, and the GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant.

Also interestingly, VS Code's ascension to No. 1 in the Python developer survey has come fairly recently. In the 2018 survey, for example, it garnered only 16 percent of respondent votes, sandwiched ...

The new Python Data Science pack, sporting 206 installs at the time of this writing, also comes with a data-centric component, so in total it bundles: Python + Pylance: Provides rich support for the ...

Nadeau says statistics are showing that 1.4 million computer science jobs will be available in the U.S. by 2020, with only 400,000 computer science students to fill those positions.

Python recently celebrated its 30th birthday, and pioneers of the language have been reflecting on its significance as an open source project.

There were also a number of online communities where Python users could post excerpts of code and answer each other’s questions. These strategies helped me feel less alone during periods of ...

Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models can help nonprogrammers skip the difficult details.

Compilers are programs that take computer language and turn it into machine code -- sets of instructions that a computer processor can quickly execute. Python, however, is not compiled beforehand.