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" - replaced the infamous course on the [Scheme](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/scheme/) language (cf., [source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602307))\n",
"- **[Google](https://www.google.com/)**\n",
" - used the strategy **\"Python where we can, C++ where we must\"** from its early days on to stay flexible in a rapidly changing environment (cf., [source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-python-at-google))\n",
" - the very first web-crawler was written in **Java and so difficult to maintain** that it was **re-written in Python** right away (cf., [source](https://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/1416596585/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539101827&sr=8-1&keywords=in+the+plex))\n",
" - the very first web-crawler was written in **Java and so difficult to maintain** that it was **rewritten in Python** right away (cf., [source](https://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/1416596585/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539101827&sr=8-1&keywords=in+the+plex))\n",
" - Python and C++, Java, and Go are the only four server-side languages to be deployed to production\n",
" - Guido van Rossom was hired by Google from 2005 to 2012 to advance the language there\n",
"- **[NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/)** open-sources many of its projects, often written in Python and regarding analyses with big data (cf., [source](https://code.nasa.gov/language/python/))\n",
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"As images tell more than words, here are two plots of popular languages' \"market shares\" based on the number of questions asked on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/), the most relevant platform for answering programming related questions: As of late 2017, Python surpassed [Java](https://www.java.com/en/), heavily used in big corporates, and [JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript), the \"language of the internet\" that does everything in web browsers, in popularity. Two blog posts from \"technical\" people explain this in more depth to the layman: [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/) and [DataCamp](https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/python-scientific-computing-case)."
"As images tell more than words, here are two plots of popular languages' \"market shares\" based on the number of questions asked on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/), the most relevant platform for answering programming-related questions: As of late 2017, Python surpassed [Java](https://www.java.com/en/), heavily used in big corporates, and [JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript), the \"language of the internet\" that does everything in web browsers, in popularity. Two blog posts from \"technical\" people explain this in more depth to the layman: [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/) and [DataCamp](https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/python-scientific-computing-case)."
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"- **Managers**: People that need to organize things and command others (like a \"boss\"). Their schedule is usually organized by the hour or even 30-minute intervals.\n",
"- **Makers**: People that create things (like programmers, artists, or writers). Such people think in half days or full days.\n",
"\n",
"Have you ever wondered why so many tech people work during nights and sleep at \"weird\" times? The reason is that many programming related tasks require a \"flow\" state in one's mind that is hard to achieve when one can get interrupted, even if it is only for one short question. Graham describes that only knowing that one has an appointment in three hours can cause a programmer to not get into a flow state.\n",
"Have you ever wondered why so many tech people work during nights and sleep at \"weird\" times? The reason is that many programming-related tasks require a \"flow\" state in one's mind that is hard to achieve when one can get interrupted, even if it is only for one short question. Graham describes that only knowing that one has an appointment in three hours can cause a programmer to not get into a flow state.\n",
"\n",
"As a result, do not set aside a certain amount of time for learning something but rather plan in an **entire evening** or a **rainy Sunday** where you can work on a problem in an **open end** setting. And do not be surprised anymore to hear \"I looked at it over the weekend\" from a programmer."
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" 5. [Bits & Numbers](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/05_numbers.ipynb)\n",
" 6. [Bytes & Text](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/06_text.ipynb)\n",
" 7. [Sequential Data](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/07_sequences.ipynb)\n",
" 8. Mappings & Sets\n",
" 8. [Mappings & Sets](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/08_mappings.ipynb)\n",
"- How can we create custom data types?\n",
" 9. Object-Orientation"
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