Deciding to learn a programming language is one thing, but if you having trouble deciding where to get started, Microsoft has a new 44-part video series that aims to teach beginners Python.

The improvements are part of the VS Code extension for Python, which is currently the most popular programming language extension on Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace, with 16.2 million installs.

Microsoft has released a host of improvements and fixes for the Python extension for its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), as well as new improvements for Java on VS Code.

According to Microsoft, the newly added Python support will extend those features. The programming language can be used to create more advanced data science workflows than those that Excel ...

Microsoft is introducing the ability to use Python code directly in Excel spreadsheets. It's called Python in Excel, and it's being made available as a Public Preview for Microsoft 365 Insiders ...

With native Python integration with Excel, users will be able to use the new “PY” function to input Python code directly into Excel cells. Microsoft has partnered with programming language ...

The 44-part course focuses on Python version 3.x and is intended for users who have some basic understanding of the JavaScript language or have tried out the Scratch visual programming language.

Python’s Meteoric Rise: From 2016-2018, KDNuggets and Kaggle report that Python overtook R as the most used programming language for data science-related purposes: today, more than 65% of all ...

Microsoft is using Python to experiment with a new way of installing and deploying Windows features, using the Microsoft Store as a host. In the past you had to go to the Store, search for an app ...