Microsoft's new free video course helps aspiring programmers learn Python... and then build AI apps on Azure.

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.

Eric Matthes’s Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition takes a well-regarded text for getting started with Python and brings it up to date for 2023.

Some members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program can now try out the combination of Python, Excel and the Anaconda Python repository.

Of course, the increasingly popular Visual Studio Code editor already sports an increasingly popular Microsoft-backed, jack-of-all-trades Python extension (just updated) that boasts more than 35 ...