Python is a highly flexible, object-oriented scripting language useful for general application development. Several well-developed numerical toolkits support scientific computation.

Discussion topics:

• Scripting Languages

• Python Features

• Documentation Resources

• Scalar Types

• String Types

• Aggregate Types

• Conditional Statements

• Loop Statements

• Functions

• Classes

• Modules

• Standard Library

• Example Script

• Documenting Code

• Linking C/C++ Code

• Computing with Python

• NumPy

• Matplotlib