Creator of Python Programming Language, Guido van Rossum | Oxford Union
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Van Rossum is a Dutch programmer and the author of the programming language Python. Python was first released in 1991 and is now one of the world's most popular coding languages. Van Rossum was the language’s Benevolent Dictator for Life until 2018, and now sits on the Python Steering Council. He has also developed software for Google, and currently works at Dropbox.
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So great to be living during a time where these original inventors are alive.
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
directors cat waz qui2?
@chadmcdowell7999
3 жыл бұрын
If you look up python on Google it shows him in a orange shirt I thought he went crazy and did something illegal lol
@blakasmurf
Жыл бұрын
Nothing like writing Python while I listen to the guy who invented it 😊
@blakasmurf
Жыл бұрын
@Not Convinced What people don't mention nowadays is being a woman lowers your expected competence level significantly. So women tend to get hired at much, much lower proficiency level than men. And end up with people like me coaching them. When if I were in their position I wouldn't even get hired!!!! 🤬😡🤬
Guido: "I got this close to dropping out because I enjoyed my part time programming job so mu-" Interviewer: "RIGHT SO MOVING ON"
@rakimcraig2556
4 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo
@fwd79
4 жыл бұрын
hahahaha 😂😂😂
@tomwright9904
4 жыл бұрын
:) "Violates my values too much"
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
@@tomwright9904 an0lojinx buk starb fawkes tungianz?
He has so much energy and the audience is just like a piece of towel in water
@chrisogonas
3 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
@@chrisogonas hi marks outa10 mustv bin long pilgrimace!
What a cold audience! Was it a eulogy or a conversation with an outstanding achiever? Kudos Van Rossum!!!
"will open source become obsolete?" wtf kind of question is that
@vroomik
4 жыл бұрын
or "what's the difference working for big vs small company" who the hell prepared those questions?
@arturfil
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah "obsolete" was a poor choice of words, I guess she wanted to say scarce...? But still I doubt we see scarcity of open source projects and technologies
@sivakumar-mu3wj
3 жыл бұрын
She has no idea
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
@@sivakumar-mu3wj def 0-pen source en
His speech was very pragmatic and open, I personally feel this approach of his in his speech also reflects in the constructs of python which makes it easy for everyone to approach the language.
@BennySalto
4 жыл бұрын
It is the (Dutch) way.
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
@@BennySalto nom plutsche,i'd say auldes cartz twas but reversed poledlische note tak shants,enc?
He is so much more humble than I expected him to be. Exactly the kind of person who should be a language's BDFL.
Python is a beautiful language. It's also nice to see that Guido is a great human too. Maybe I'll write some python today.
@winsomehax
4 жыл бұрын
Python is a mess. It's fine for knocking up a few line script. Writing anything more ambitious ends up running into the same problem as javascript but without the odd cools bits and even more frustration. Duck typing, get used to seeing the word 'self' in your code and for people crying 'not pythonic' because they made up a bunch of conventions to justify their bizarre and hazardous choices. Oh and __init__ ...seriously... falling over at run-time with errors that a non-toy language would have spotted at compile time... and don't forget that reformatting your code becomes an explosive issue because someone decided that spaces/tabs isn't just an aesthetic issue. Python belongs in the dustbin of failed experiments.
@MMABeijing
4 жыл бұрын
@@winsomehax never heard such a negative opinion about the language. what is ur language of choice, if i may ask
@wideningcarrot6
4 жыл бұрын
@@winsomehax bruh
@seanlestermiranda
4 жыл бұрын
@@MMABeijing he prefer english than python xD hes coding with english
@MMABeijing
4 жыл бұрын
@@seanlestermiranda makes perfect sense now, thx
Mr. Rossum's contribution to AI is so underrated. I'm glad to learn his work and interviews while he is still around. HUGE respect and I hope to learn everything from him before his time is up.
Python has been my hobby I have enjoying for two years - and I love it a lot. I enjoy solving problems with Python. I am currently learning to work on neural networks with python. I cannot thank this man enough for giving us one of the best tools in the world.
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
mark pilgrim 'dive into'?[cathedral/bazaars?]
I'm working in python last 3 years but i'm still learning python. I feel enjoy when learning python now move my career to data science world.
On one side there are many of us who just spend all our lives just trying to wrap our heads around the already existing programming languages, how they work, how a compiler works and so on ,while on the other side there are these people who just invent a new programming language just like that: I am always amazed how these people conceptualise and bring it to work..... How do their brains run in a manner to achieve all this....
“...lost my thread of thought” Spoken like a true robot
@user-zb6lg1xj3k
4 жыл бұрын
first Impression perhaps a really good one attempting to appear hooman
@mauriciojimenez7704
4 жыл бұрын
not really thread safe
@user-zb6lg1xj3k
4 жыл бұрын
first Impression *attempting
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
@@egonkirchof only if builden dialectric autombile en demands? ['we didnt start the fiat']brews lee?[kungus few=jenkts'pirates/carribean'dneipier/elektronka/doopolz/dootcherz? walter raleights da vinci bycycles?
Very nice person, apart of speech itself, very respectful and open. Appreciate his approach and attitude towards community 👍
Someome else already mentioned this but I'll say it again -- it's so cool to be listening to these people talk when they are still around. That's like being able to listen to Einstein when he was still around, or Claude Shannon, or any of the other legends in STEM.
This guy inspires me to write a new language to take over the world. I will be back in 50 yrs.
@Chartered
Жыл бұрын
Remained me 50 years
@muhammadjitu7146
3 ай бұрын
Maybe the comment every people expected in their minds 😅😅😅 to write down
Thank you Oxford for sharing this knowledge
i heard that this guy saves lots of lives
@BurgerKingHarkinian
3 жыл бұрын
@むく lol
This is going to be gold.
@GinoNL
4 жыл бұрын
Bubbly Srinath Holland first 😉
@cryptodeveloper
4 жыл бұрын
A.I first.
@SuperBhavanishankar
4 жыл бұрын
Python first 🧐
Thank god for indentation, perfect language for someone with OCD
I meet this man at North Bay Python Conference 2019 and boy the talk we had was the inspiration i needed to create my own programming language.
@immaterialscout6177
3 жыл бұрын
hows your own programming language development going? (genuinely curious)
@AnthonyMcqueen1987
3 жыл бұрын
@@immaterialscout6177 Finished the prototype now I am going through testing.
Thank you Guido for giving the world Python!
@SuperBhavanishankar
4 жыл бұрын
Agree
@SuperBhavanishankar
4 жыл бұрын
If its not Python. I would have dead with C++ or Java. Python is my life savior. Im good with Programming Language but I'm not good with Programming. Im 24 its too late for my career. hope I will improve. anyway thanx Guido.
Happy New Year!
I had no idea about this guy and I'm studying Python now. So strange no one mentions him in courses I've done
@cabc74
4 жыл бұрын
The python examples use the name Guido a lot
@shiskeyoffles
4 жыл бұрын
Same. Never heard of him.
@chuckitaway466
4 жыл бұрын
@Tony Lewis Evil Santa comment was on the money
@diogeneslantern18
3 жыл бұрын
@Evil robot Santa Claus for sure. I have just started python this year and I'm going through the online bootcamps, but I already have a ton of books and it's clear that there is a TON more substance to the books - alas, I don't want to hop back and forth
Such a great and inspiring person
excellent news about the optimization of Python :)
Now python is increasing day by day and from past years it always ranked in top third. Hopefully someday it will be at no. 1 and irreplaceable.
Such a cool dude! I'm an electronics + Assembly + Forth + C guy. This dude makes me wanna learn Python.
Thank you for the great talk!
This explanation explains so much at what we are looking for. 😶😶😑😅
1:37 when they realized this wasn't going to be a talk about snakes
@shashankkothari8066
3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@dentonhess5810
3 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@diogeneslantern18
3 жыл бұрын
It's 1:34AM and I am absolutely cackling 😂
Legend !!
This is a nice generation to live in. Living with legends
I’ve seen a better crowd and interview at “lower tier” colleges. They didn’t seem interested at all.
@Miguelocod
4 жыл бұрын
the crowd is very bad, so silent
@zerberus1097
4 жыл бұрын
what do you expect, girls throwing their bras at him?
@fahimzahir9587
4 жыл бұрын
Juri Wolkow No, it was just a passive interview. The students didn’t seem like they knew who he was or seemed interested and it was just a platform to push another political angle instead of a genuine interview.
@tomwright9904
4 жыл бұрын
So you have to pay to join the union and they are more based on debating. My understanding is that there are a lot of law / history types and fewer maths / science types.
@tomwright9904
3 жыл бұрын
@Cheesy Helmet hmm kind of judgmental .. maybe true on average.
He is right about C++ ! Same thing almost happened to me when I was at college intro to programming!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁
@aniksamiurrahman6365
4 жыл бұрын
What u bcame a gr8 C++ programer?
@SkyFly19853
4 жыл бұрын
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 No, it was just a introduction to Programming Languages by C++...
@aniksamiurrahman6365
4 жыл бұрын
@@SkyFly19853 Those ppl who's entry to programing world starts with C/C++ end up in one of two schools: 1) I hate C/C++ school. 2) C/C++ is closest to my heart school. Which one is u?
@SkyFly19853
4 жыл бұрын
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 It was one of colleges which I went to a long time ago... So, right now, the way they teach has changed...
@iiVEVO
3 жыл бұрын
c++20 is smexy
Love the conversation
Respect
This guy look some nice kind guy he's trying to answer very clear
I remember sitting next to him in Caltrain and texting my friends "I'm sitting next to Guido himself!" and they didn't believe me!
@SuperBhavanishankar
4 жыл бұрын
Wow. Can I be your friend in LinkedIn or something 🙁
@leonhardeuler9839
4 жыл бұрын
You should have asked for a selfie
Es difícil predecir, pero pienso igual que el muchacho que hizo la ultima pregunta, la tendencia será a ser más accesible, más natural la programación (esto está sucediendo en todas las áreas no sólo en la programación de computadoras), la cuestión es como se use para resolver problemas de gran complejidad. Tal como Guido dijo no previo que Python se fuera a usar en áreas como el aprendizaje de máquinas, todo dependerá de la propia industria, del mercado de trabajo y sus usuarios...
yes i'm damaged for life
Thanks my teacher 😍😘
I've got to be honest I'm a huge wrestling fan and don't know crap about computers I'm starting to learn about Python and what it does I want to thank all the nerds for accepting me into their community. I promise to not do damage, I just want to learn
everyone: i lost my train of thought dude who wrote a programming language as a hobby: i lost my thread of thought
Legend says this guy's a dutch
Excelente vídeo saludos
In the thumbnail he looked like "The Professor" from "Casa De Papel"
@genesismoore433
3 жыл бұрын
you're onto something...
I don't get all the negativity about the woman interviewer. Maybe some people would have prefered it to be more technical. But for me as a newbie I found it an interesting interview.
43:22 Guy On The Front Row Continuously Raises His Hand For Asking Question But The Lady Never Responds To His Query And Ignoring Them. That Level Of Rejection Hurts.
Brilliant man
python will be change our future
am still has not good at any programming language , but am plan in 2020 to a Python programmer . thanx all
32:44 I agree don't use C++ as an intro course to programming use C instead.
@tomasderner7511
4 жыл бұрын
Why not assembly? Or even better, why don't the students build their own computers first?
@ekremdincel1505
4 жыл бұрын
@@tomasderner7511 they should start from transistors.
@adamcal4257
3 жыл бұрын
We were taught Python.
@ProGamer1115
3 жыл бұрын
Fuck C, all my homies use punch cards
YES
Hats off.. ..master of geeks.....
The guy at the front row must have been really mad for not getting the opportunity to ask his question. Sadly all good things come to an end. Guido also seems pretty nerdy as he stated earlier - and yet open to new ideas. That's why i think Python is at where it is. If given the question would have loved to ask Guido why he chose the name Python - what inspired him to do so, the implications of doing so and finally if he somewhat regretted naming it as "Python".
@DanielJ0nes
4 жыл бұрын
It comes from Monty Python, which Guido was (and still is, I'd imagine) a big fan of. :)
Amo a este sujeto
Open source will never become obsolete.
Open source is peer reviewed software. It is superior for the same reason that peer reviewed science is better.
The lady interviewing is clueless and not even remotely technical. She seems so lost and confused. They couldn't find one technical woman to interview this gentleman? And then they ask why women are not getting into programming? Because you don't care enough to find a good technical woman to conduct an interview.
@stevebez8284
3 жыл бұрын
information absolute
For those who don't know, this man is right up there with Dennis Ritchie (C), his language, along with others, have changed, and are changing, the world.
Why is everyone sitting looking to the center? The most awkward position to watch someone talk at the stage
@colonelkk
4 жыл бұрын
Nicolas Unger It is supposed to be arranged like Parliament, and during debates people speak from both sides at each other
Audiance is dead or what? come on greatest person on the planet in front of you? When you will praise him or feel proud when he will be dead? then most people will say omg he was greatest of all time.. First time dead audiance in front of Great Programmer.
Guido, any plans to make a new programming language which can embed python easily ?
He is the King.
Many people forget that this guy speaks fluent assembly, not to mention his excellent command of C, and that he can write directly in machine code because he understands so well what the machine does. Think about it for a second - learning IT and pushing the field forward cannot be done by people who speak Python, C# or Java only. If you are an IT student, please learn the basics! If you're a user - a non IT person who uses Python as a tool - great - welcome on board. But if you consider yourself to be an IT specialist - Python is not your toy! Otherwise in 20 years there will be no one left on the planet who knows how a computer works.
Life is short, using Python!
I did c++ at university and it definitely damaged me for life - it made me hate coding in general.
I'm starting this coding journey with C. How much therapy am I gonna need? 😂
You gave me a future
You are the Hero!! Python the only language that makes sense in 21st century!
@GinoNL
4 жыл бұрын
BC 123 well that wasn’t neccesary
@bumbaclotboi4476
4 жыл бұрын
BC 123 That is extremely racist, what make you think that? And if he is fake, who cares if he is a pedophile? He never existed
@umairalvi7382
4 жыл бұрын
@BC 123 you piece of shitt without having knowledge of any religion how could you speak so cruel and blaphemous words.You dont have any right to speak such words regarding any religion understand,this is a platform to spread knowledge and not hatred.
@Mallick7
4 жыл бұрын
@ BC, you are welcome to answer his personal technical comments with similar technical comments of yours. Don’t you have any?
@liamtubsy3767
4 жыл бұрын
@BC 123 You are an idiot. How could you generalise an entire creed? There are just as terrible christians as there are muslims. Open your mind, mate!
Who else thinks that Requests should be in the standard library of Python? I think it is such an incredibly userful package.
@20thCB
4 жыл бұрын
No...it changes too quickly. Standard library only changes with each release of Python.
@dark4krad
4 жыл бұрын
@@20thCB that's true too but it would be so cool to have something that powerful in the standard library. But it works just fine as a stand alone too tbo
Why is it that, often times the most intellectual people have been alone
This interviewer portrays result of affirmative action and leftism perfectly
I would have hoped the talk to being a bit more political. So it was not very technical as it would have been interesting to learn what language design desicions were made for witch reasons instead of saying that is was like his gut feeling, at least from a technical point of view. On the other handsite, it seems to be a very big problem how emotional affected people get for changing tiny parts of a programming language and this emotion turns into hatred. So maybe it would have been interesting what steps cold be taken to make this culture more open. So here i think the talk was not detailed enough. But thanks for organising and uploading these talks (sorry for my bad english)
Genius
Respected sir, Good day, happy new year 2020. Kindly let me know about any employment opportunities to work along with you, it'll be my privilege. Thank you for sharing.🙏
@gnuemacs1166
4 жыл бұрын
Nandan M python is for women, are you a woman, sorry all positions are filled, next
@nandanm3826
4 жыл бұрын
@@gnuemacs1166 Thank you. You've a great collection of homes. It's nice.
@SuperBhavanishankar
4 жыл бұрын
Nandan bro. it doesn't work like that im sorry but its true. learn AI and create a project that amazes the world. That's how it works. Its not easy mate. try if doesn't work atleast you learned something. good luck.
👑
If Guido made Python, what Lang did they write Guido in?
@ernstraedecker6174
4 жыл бұрын
Dutch.
@felipegomes6312
Жыл бұрын
He was written in 5619 DNA Assembly
Where do I start from if I want to learn Python language from the beginning with quickly process? Which book is compatible. Please leave your comments if you have good experience or results. I appreciate it...
@slatanek
4 жыл бұрын
Sharofiddin Allaberdiev try the Head First series of books, there should be one for Python too. Otherwise any tutorial for total beginners on yt will do
@gabrielgonzalez1998
4 жыл бұрын
Hello, I highly recommend to bookmark these: www.freecodecamp.org/ -- Go to the bottom, click in python tutorial and check the 4 hours youtube video. www.w3schools.com -- Here you can start to learn python on your own the easy way :) A recommended Book: Learn python 3 the hard way. You will learn everything you need to know from these webpages. Try not to lose yourself since there is a lot of information related to python.
I was waiting for her to ask him why did you create Python, but she never did!
@carletonai6597
4 жыл бұрын
@Mesophyl May be!
He is the hero.
He wears glasses. He can't see sharp. Maybe that's why he created python.
@Tux0xFF
4 жыл бұрын
that will be James Gosling
@kamilbabayev3432
4 жыл бұрын
I think you should visit your doctor
The bit about women in coding shows how even highly intelligent people can fall for this identity folly. So they got all these female speakers now but the actual core dev community is still overwhelmingly male. Indicating despite all the efforts they make and even using selection bias against men when mentoring, women simply aren't interested as much as men in this role. And they probably made the conferences worse by getting token speakers chosen based on their identity instead of based on their expertise in the actual topic the conference is about. Thus leaving us collectively worse off in the name of supposed equality.
He just said that Python Programmers are not "professional" ? 15:10
We should offer a rose to the king! 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhataavah. 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhataavah. 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhataavah. We should offer a rose to the king!
Wow this guy is so cool. I mean. Super nerd. But in a cool way :D
its a most popular language now
he is a god
I'm 42min in and the guy with the curly hair on the right has yet to be picked to answer a question... This is stressing me tf out right now.
@adamploof3528
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I was rooting for that guy too :)
I think those who has no interest on computer "eww nerd" stuff should at least study Python. They will have a different perspective of their life.
What i wanna ask is that how did you learn about digital electronics when you were young ? On your own from where? You didn't hire a teacher or something right ?
@effexon
4 жыл бұрын
I suspect those hobby kits for kids had good instructions and were simple enough to help learning.
What inspired the name 'Python?'
@kushalneo
2 жыл бұрын
Monty Python BBC
genius
Where is my switch...case operator, Guido?
@ernstraedecker6174
4 жыл бұрын
In the dustbin, next to do... while...
I know to phython language code
Print ("let's fuc*ing go")
Okay, opression talk incoming at 17:00. That's it for me
@MMABeijing
4 жыл бұрын
second time he does it in talks. fuck him
@chrishelm1
4 жыл бұрын
Because oppression doesn’t exist and the world is equal. Ok 👌🏾
@slatanek
4 жыл бұрын
@@chrishelm1 Because I get sick of hearing privileged people talk about oppression from a moral high ground. Neither Guido nor a Oxford student nor any of the celebrities that love to talk about it nowadays have anything new to say about it. Neither of them is actually doing anything about it even tho these are the people that have actual influence over things (an Oxford student less so obviously).
fuckin legend
BDFL Take a bow!