Introduction to Computing with Python

This book is about using Python for numerical computing. Python is a high-level, general-purpose interpreted programming language widely used in scientific computing and engineering. As a general-purpose language, Python was not specifically designed for numerical computing, but many of its characteristics make it well-suited for this task. First and foremost, Python is well known for its clean and easy-to-read code syntax. Good code readability improves maintainability, reduces bugs, and leads to better applications overall. It also enables rapid code development, and readability and expressiveness are essential in exploratory and interactive computing, where fast turnaround for testing various ideas and models is important.