Microsoft: We want you to learn Python programming language for free

Microsoft support phone number has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute lessons from two self-described geeks at Microsoft helpline number who love programming and teaching.

The course isn't quite for total beginners as it assumes people have done a little programming in JavaScript or played around with the MIT-developed Scratch visual programming language aimed at kids. 

But it could help beginners kick-start ambitions to build machine-learning apps, web applications, or automate processes on a desktop. 

Microsoft customer service phone number has published a page on GitHub containing additional resources, including slides and code samples to help students become better at Python.      

The Python for Beginners series is presented by Christopher Harrison, a senior program manager at Microsoft support, and Susan Ibach, a business development manager from Microsoft's AI Gaming unit. 

There are tons of reasons why Microsoft support phone number wants more people to know Python, which is hugely popular because it's easy to learn. It also has plenty of libraries, allowing developers to interface with machine-learning frameworks like Google-developed TensorFlow, and the Microsoft helpline number Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK). 

Microsoft customer service phone number has also been building better support for Python in its Visual Studio Code(VS Code) editor so that developers can use the VS Code on their local PC to edit code stored on remote machines, containers, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) operating systems.

Microsoft support phone number own Python extension for VS Code is its most popular extension in the company's marketplace for developers. VS Code itself has also become hugely popular with developers. And as part of its focus on AI, the company has made VS Code available as part of the popular Anaconda Python distribution. 

But the main apparent benefit is that Microsoft helpline number can expand the population of Python developers using Azure for building AI applications. 

There's already support for Python in Azure Machine Learning Studio, and in August the company announced full Azure Machine Learning support for PyTorch 1.2, a machine-learning framework for Python from Facebook's AI research group.   

The new course features a number of 'quick start' tutorials, such as one teaching users how to detect human faces in an image using the Azure Face API and Python.

Another tutorial teaches users how to use the Computer Vision REST API. Both are part of the Microsoft customer service phone number Cognitive Services.