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    Python is a computer                                         Really!
                        language to create
                    programs. And a program
                    is a set of instructions that
                     make the computer work
                     as per those instructions.

                    Test Your Knowledge                                                         21 st  Century   #Critical Thinking
                                                                                                    Skills

                      1. Differentiate between low-level language and high-level language.

                      2. Is Python a low-level language or high-level language?

                      3. Find out any two programming languages that are similar to Python.

                  Python  is  a popular  high-level  programming language.  It  is  a powerful  language  used  for  general
                  purpose programming. Python was developed by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. Python
                  is extensively used to develop:

                      Games                                              Websites
                      Graphical User Interface programs                  Web Applications

                  FEATURES OF PYTHON

                  The following are the features of Python:

                       Easy to code: It is very easy to write programs in Python as compared to other high-level programming
                     languages. This is because the language used to write Python codes is similar to the English language.

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