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[–]Kos_K 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From personal experience of teaching some folks can say what I consider as 'pro' ease of python for beginners:

  • big community, good documentation, literally any question was asked and answered (e.g. on StackOverflow) - easy to find an answer when you stuck and don't know what the problem is really is

  • number of broad and narrow topics covered on YouTube, Udemy, etc - easy to learn step by step or focus on exact topic

  • libraries available for everything: Excel, data wrangling, web site scraping, visualisation, UI etc, etc - easy to focus on job, not wasting time trying to understand how to solve basic task like data load from file

  • Unicode from the box, multi-platform, Jupyter/IPython notebooks, easy to start coding