Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default.

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, Dolly Setton makes the case for Python being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.

Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.

The Python course is part of Grow With Google, an initiative unveiled three years ago in which the company pledged $1 billion to help prepare workers for tech jobs.