I come from a background of static typing and rigid languages: C, C++, C#. I’m seeing more than one trend at work here. For the longest time I felt something of a warm, fuzzy sensation when it came to my programming. The data type on the left matched the data type on the right. All was well. Then Python walked through the door.
Python’s not the only game in town to use dynamic typing (also known as duck typing, which you will learn about in due time), but it did catch my eye and challenged my perspective as a programmer. “What is this? How does one accurately program anything in this fashion? Five hundred lines of code and not one duck! Python’s a liar.” A little unsettling, you can imagine.
