Programming doesn't have to be monotonous, nor does it have to be hard. I don't enjoy programming most of the time, except ...

The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code — not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death ...

So I got to work fairly quickly. Python was already installed on my Linux laptop. I added NumPy (think “numbers” and “Python” — a package for numerical/scientific computing in Python) plus ...

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...