Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...

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If you’re a beginner learning to code, Python (an interpretive programming language used to build websites and software, analyse data and automate tasks) could be a great place to start. Python’s ...