Choose Your Own Pyventure/Additional Resources

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Additional Resources edit

Python edit

In the Python command line, type help()
Online Books
- Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by Allen Downey
- Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim
Python Documentation
- Guido's [1] original tutorial
- index of all Python modules in the Standard Library (i.e., come bundled with Python)
wikibooks about Python. Of particular quality:
- Think Python
Stack Overflow^[2] -- read and answer programming related questions.
- Newest 'Python' 'Beginner' questions
- Newest Python Questions
Doug Hellmann's Python Module of the Week
http://showmedo.com/videos/python - video tutorials
Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python -- one of the inspirations for this book
Programmer's Competency Matrix

Hacker Culture edit

The Hacker Jargon File -- Hacking culture has a long and um, ~~checkered~~ storied history. There are lots of expressions, like grok that pepper programmer talk.

References edit

↑ Guido: Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, and Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) of the Python project
↑ stack overflow: jargon. a famous class of programming error.[1]

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