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Why the 🐍?

Python isn’t named after the snake. It’s named after a comedy show. The snake snuck in later - and honestly, it’s the friendlier thing to have next to your coffee.

60-second read while your first email lands.

1

real Python function, every week

5 min

before the rest of your morning

52

functions a year, just by showing up

Your morning jam, in 6 lines

  • ▸Where: your inbox, before the day gets loud
  • ▸When: every morning, about five minutes
  • ▸What: one real Python function, fading a line at a time
  • ▸How it starts: Day 1 you get the whole function - read it, run it
  • ▸How it ends: Day 5 you write the body from memory - and Ada, named for the first programmer, runs it so you see it work
  • ▸One rule: no streaks, no grades, no pressure - just show up tomorrow

How Python got its snake

Back in 1991, a programmer named Guido van Rossum released a new language and needed a name for it. He happened to be reading scripts from Monty Python’s Flying Circus at the time, so he called it Python - after the comedy troupe, not the reptile.

But “Python” is also a rather famous snake, and the community quietly decided it liked that better. The logo became two friendly snakes. The snake turned up on the stickers, the mugs, the conference badges. Nobody voted on it - it just happened.

Then:

  1. 1.Python became the language most people reach for first.
  2. 2.The snake turned up everywhere - laptops, lanyards, tattoos.
  3. 3.It stopped meaning reptile and started meaning: beginners welcome here.
  4. 4.Today it sits at the top of our emails every morning, right next to your function.

“A language friendly enough to name after a joke is a language friendly enough to learn over breakfast.”

That’s the whole idea behind Py & Jam.

So why is it our mascot?

Because writing code is the kind of thing you only really get from the inside.

You can read about it. Watch a tutorial. Nod. Move on.

But the moment you write it yourself - one line of Python - it stops being a tutorial and starts being a story.

That’s the whole bet of Py & Jam:

  • ✓5 minutes a day
  • ✓One function at a time
  • ✓Until Python stops being something you watch from outside

🐍 = the door in.

Every time you see it in our emails, that’s the reminder.

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