Why should you learn Python?

There is great value in learning Python.

You may want to read this link to learn the use cases of Python.

Insurance: creating business insights with machine learning
Retail banking: flexible data transformation and manipulation
Aerospace: meeting software system deadlines
Finance: data mining to identity cross-sell opportunities
Business services: API access to financial information
Hardware: automating network administration
Healthcare: predicting disease prognosis
Consulting services: bespoke web development
InfoTech: IT modernization
Software: adding extensibility to legacy applications

Source:
https://www.activestate.com/resources/datasheets/top-10-python-use-cases/


Python is also used for backend in Web Applications where it is used for scripting
2) Desktop GUI Applications.
3) Software Development. ...
4) Scientific and Numeric. ...
5) Business Applications. ...
6) Console Based Application. ...
7) Audio or Video-based Applications. ...
8) 3D CAD Applications.

For more applications read here:
https://intersog.com/blog/python-application-development-common-use-cases-and-project-examples/

Read all Python-related posts in this blog:
https://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/search?q=python

Microsoft and Education

Microsoft is trying to do some workout with students on their overall development- scholastically speaking. It is high time that the improvement in education standards are addressed. USA may be a great country but not in educating its students despite massive spending.

In fact, quite far down in Mathematics and Science rankings among the OECD Countries as you can see from this 2009 report and probably not much better off in recent surveys as well. Shocking but true.

Overall

Mathematics and Science

Here is Microsoft's Education related site.

There are plenty of Apps on the internet (you just have to click off Face Book etc..) which will make your learning a pleasure. I do not mean that you should get rid of Facebook and twitter but...

Here is a video of one of the APPs from the store. it is available for all the vendors, not only MSFT. This was randomly chosen but there are zillions of apps.

http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en/download/


Also visit;
http://www.educationcorner.com/k12-education.html