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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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