Software: NITDA, NMC to promote new programming language
By Everest Amaefule, Abuja
Monday, 21 Jun 2010
The National Information Technology Development Agency is working in collaboration with Python Nigeria Group and the National Mathematical Centre to promote the use of an open source programming language, Python, for teaching and research in the country.
Coordinator of Python Nigeria, Dr. Olumide Owolabi, disclosed this our correspondent after a training workshop on the Python Programming Language, which was concluded at the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja on Friday.
Owolabi said that popularising the language would help the country check the enormous capital, which individuals, businesses and government spend on foreign software licences.
He said, “It gives developers the ability to experiment with different kinds of projects and approaches to software development. The ease and speed with which software applications can be developed using Python can result in significant savings in the cost of developing software. That it is relatively easy to learn is also a great advantage.
“It is particularly becoming an important teaching tool in universities in the advanced world. For that reason, the Python Nigeria Group is working on forging relationships among academics in Nigeria, the NMC and NITDA to promote the use of Python by academics for both teaching and research.”
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