A complete introduction to built-in Python objects, functions, loops to error handling

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Computer programming languages are all about representing and manipulating structured information in a logical way. On a very low level, the keys we punched into the keyboard are translated into the firing of electronic transistors in the computer hardware that alter the computing system, such as the memory stored and the pixels that appear on the screen.

Analogous to languages we speak, there are multiple computer languages that can communicate with the operating system to manipulate the processes and memory, and one such language that has exploded in popularity is the Python programming language. It is an extremely versatile language that has applications across backend and frontend systems, but in recent years, Python has really shone in machine learning computation and data science programming.

The reason for Python’s popularity is its intuitive, convenient language structure (dynamic typing instead of static typing, etc) and ease of prototyping as an interpreted (instead of compiled) language. The downside of Python, as a high-level language, however, is the relatively slower speed of executing its operations, as compared with…