Choose Your Own Pyventure/Additional Resources

Additional Resources

Python

• 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 -- 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

• 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.