Select your programming language

- [Instructor] So, there are a number of…programming languages you can use to work with Spark.…And it can be a complex answer…as to which one you should use.…I'm going to try to make it simple for you.…What I'm finding in working with my clients is…most people are starting prototyping with Python.…Now, there is no issue with putting Python code…into production so long as it performs at scale.…Also, most of the coding examples that I'm seeing…are coming in Python.…Now that being said, Scala is the native language for Spark,…and if you're not familiar with this,…this is a functional version of Java.…

Scala is nontrivial to learn,…particularly if you don't have experience…in the functional programming paradigm.…And although, in working through some of the examples,…I've included a couple of them here,…just sprinkled them in so you can kind of get a sense of it,…I think there's enough for you to learn…in terms of what Spark does, how to work with Spark,…how to optimize Spark,…so we're going to focus on Python for this course.…