Can you provide me the details of the Python – the Language – as offered under FOSSEE (Free & Open Source Software for Education) project at IITB or Indian Institute of Technology Bombay?

Python team is part of the FOSSEE (Free & Open Source Software for Education) project at IITB or Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

FOSSEE, in turn is a part of the National Mission on Education through ICT with the thrust area being "Adaptation and deployment of open source simulation packages equivalent to proprietary software” funded by MHRD.

Python

Python is a general-purpose, high-level, remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains.

Python supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative and functional programming styles.

FOSSEE promote Python for scientific computing through various activities like Python Textbook Companion, creation of spoken tutorials & courses like SDES.

Features of Python
• Easy to read and learn
• Free and Open Source
• Useful for scientific computing
• Powerful interactive interpreter
• Extensive scientific libraries
• Well documented

Applications of Python
• Numeric and Symbolic computation
• 2D/3D Plotting
• Useful for scientific computing
• User interfaces
• Parallel computing
• Machine learning & Image Processing
• Game development
• Web Development
• And Much More

FOSSEE Python Team

Principal Investigator
Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran

Team Members

Project Managers
• Kiran Kishore
• Usha Vishwanathan
Software Manager
• Srikant Patnaik
Assistant Project Manager
• Vineeta Ghavri
Research Assistants
• Hardik Ghaghada
• Prathamesh Salunke
• Trupti Kini
• Soumen Ganguly
• Syam G. Krishnan
• Ankit Javalkar

System Administrator
• Thomas Stephen Lee
Office Staff
• Komal Solanki
• Vishal Birare
Past members
• Amit Singh Sethi
• Anoop Jacob Thomas
• Bhanukiran Perabathini
• Madhusudan C S
• Nishanth Amuluru
• Puneeth Chaganti
• Shantanu Choudhary
• Kadambari Devarajan
• Santosh Vattam
• Yogesh Sharma
• Parth Buch
• Primal Pappachan
• Anand Raj Ramachandran
• Sushma Dubey
• Jay Parikh
• Harish Badrinath
• Deepak Kharat
• Anita Kharat
• Jovina D'Souza
• Bella Tony

Contact Detail:
Python Team,
CFD - Lab, Aero. Annex Building, Below HSS Dept., Opp. Metallurgical Dept.
IIT Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai – 400076