Agriculture and farming have been around, in some form or another, forever. Like with everything else we are always exploring how to make what we do better, how to improve various agriculture processes that result in better seeding and growing of food. A part of this is technological changes – where hundreds of people are creating and developing new creative and innovative solutions for this field through Coding.

This mix of Agriculture and Technology is a known as “Agritech”; and is based on the understanding that every field or industry can be improved with innovative and digital thinking.

The world has changed, and the need to create sustainable solutions is more and more important every day. We cannot wait anymore; solutions need to be created today… and you might be the one developing them. For examples of Agritech ideas, companies and projects please see the link 'Coding and Agriculture: Interesting Agritech Projects'.

This is the beginning of your journey, learning Python, an in-demand language that is one of the easiest programming languages to learn. Programming in Python is as simple as typing an English sentence on your system. Python is also easy to download and install.

At this stage of the course, you will begin learning to Code in Python to replicate the running of a farming or agricultural business software, with the aim of helping you develop Python Coding, an understanding how coding is used in the agricultural industry and the importance of technology in the farming sector.

Please see the link titled 'Python Advantages and Disadvantages – Step in the right direction' in the links section to give you a better insight about Python. Also the video 'What is Python? Why Python is So Popular?' in the resources section is a quick video that gives you an overview of a quick insight into Python.