resources

textbook

• Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science, 3rd edition
• ISBN 1590282752
• on amazon

python stuff

• documentation
  • official 3.x docs
  • python 3 cheatsheat
• installing it
  • official downloads
  • anaconda distribution - another distribution with numpy & all the trimmings
  • jupyter - a browser-based python numerical environment
• other
  • visualize python - online code visualization
  • how to think like a computer scientist - online textbook

computer background

• learn enough command line to be dangerous
• ascii and utf8
• binary and hex

code editors

• emacs | aquamacs
• vim
• notepad++ (windows)
• atom
• idle - python's built-in IDE

general info

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