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- According to 92% of employers, IT certifications help to ascertain the reliability of IT employees<\/li>\n
- For 91% of hiring managers, certifications act as an important element in their hiring criteria<\/span><\/li>\n
- According to 92% of employers, higher salaries are given to IT certified individuals<\/li>\n
- 80% of HR executives verify certifications among job candidates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Perhaps these figures explain why there\u2019s a mad rush among candidates to get certified despite rising certification cost<\/strong>s. If you\u2019ve your eyes set on entering the field of data science<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, you can consider earning a Python certification.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
Guido van Possum \u2013 a Dutch programmer, developed Python in 1980s. You can use this object-oriented and open-source programming language for an extensive range of applications such as developing, scripting, and testing. Thanks to Python\u2019s simplicity and elegance, top technology organizations like Google, Dropbox, IBM, Quora, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Mozilla, Qualcomm etc have implemented it.<\/span> Before we take a look at the rising certification costs<\/strong> of Python, let\u2019s try to understand what makes this programming language the most preferred choice of a majority these days.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to learn and efficient<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nPython<\/em> is extremely simple and easy to learn – thanks to its close resemblance to the English language.<\/span> When compared to some other programming languages like C++ or Java, its learning curve is shorter. What\u2019s more, you can accomplish a lot with it by often using fewer lines of code than other programming languages, say Java.<\/p>\n
Though some critics may say Python\u2019s execution speed to be somewhat problematic, its benefits far outweigh performance concerns, if any. Additionally, there are many libraries, packages, and modules for Python, which can make lives of those learning or using Python easier.<\/p>\n
For example, instead of writing complex and lengthy loops to parse and find patterns in text, you just need to import the regular expressions module, which will help you to get the job done with very little code. Beautiful Soup – a Python library that many use for web scraping to parse data from XML and HTML files, is another example of how user-friendly Python is.<\/p>\n
Even as a beginner, you can quickly learn to automate tasks like handling excel spreadsheets and PDFs, working with files etc with Python. In case you are interested in the field of data science<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, you may even dive into data analysis, data visualization, machine learning<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Django, and much more after you\u2019ve got the basics of Python right.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s backed by an active and large community<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nPython<\/em> programming language has a large, active, and thriving global community of millions of software developers.<\/span> These professionals interact with each other online and offline via numerous virtual and physical locations and help guide the community with global, regional, and local events. Thanks to this large community, you\u2019ll find more than a lakh projects existing in the Python Package Index<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (PyPI), which would help serve almost all kinds of requirements.<\/p>\n
You can consider the PyPI repository similar to your hardware store, where you go to find the requisite tools for finishing a project. This tremendous support is another reason why learning Python features on the top of the list of many IT professionals and even students.<\/p>\n
Python is the trendiest programming language<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThanks<\/em> to the rising interest in AI (artificial intelligence) and data science, professionals having the relevant qualifications, certifications, and skills are in high demand. You can get an idea of how big the future with these technologies will be by considering what IBM predicted \u2013 by 2020, the demand for data scientists<\/strong><\/em><\/a> will rise by 28%.<\/p>\n
While data scientist<\/em> has been ranked by Glassdoor in 2018 as the number one best job in the US, artificial intelligence<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is flaunted as the future of technology. For machine learning (ML) professionals<\/em> and data scientists<\/em>, Python is emerging as the preferred choice. That\u2019s because it comes with a robust and rich set of libraries, such as Pandas for cleaning, manipulating, transforming, and analyzing data, NumPy for ML and data science, TensorFlow for machine learning, scikit-learn for machine learning, Keras (a user-friendly, high-level neural network library) for deep learning, and several others.<\/p>\n
Thanks to such vast and useful resources that make learning and programming with Python easier, a growing number of people are opting to learn Python and hone their skills in the programming language in case they already have the working knowledge of it.<\/span><\/p>\n
To understand the reason behind the rising cost of Python certification<\/strong>, you\u2019ll also need to know what\u2019s driving the huge demand for Python certified professionals. Let\u2019s try to decode the reason.<\/p>\n
Python had been a hidden gem in the domain of IT<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nDespite<\/em> being in existence since the late 80s, Python wasn\u2019t noticed for decades, perhaps because it wasn\u2019t marketed properly. Additionally, there were some problems with its fundamental concept, which acted as a hindrance in this programming language becoming popular.<\/p>\n
The scenario changed when Google brought this language to the forefront in the 21st<\/sup> century and made some necessary alterations on its core logic setup and configuration. Following those changes, Python gained enhanced power and performance. It even deleted fully repeated methods and modules from its standard library to make it lighter, faster, and smoother.<\/p>\n
At present, Python\u2019s performance is two to three times of what it was during its initial days.<\/span> All these factors have contributed to making it one of the most influential programming languages in the technical industry. No wonder why it has gained a huge popularity among tech developers and experts.<\/p>\n
Python lets developers build applications in different domains<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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