resources

basics

• software tools - editors, compilers
• Copyright and Plagiarism
• creative commons

command line

• Mac
  • wikipedia:Apple Terminal (probably in /Applications/Utilities)
• Unix & Mac
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell
  • setting up SSH public/private keys (use v2)
  • basic unix shell commands
• Windows
  • wikipedia:Command Prompt
  • wikipedia:List of DOS commands

git (version control)

• http://git-scm.com
• Pro Git - free online PDF book with all the details
• git command line tutorial
• https://github.com/MarlboroCollegeComputerScience
• https://github.com/edu - free "micro" plans for students (5 private repos)
• https://bitbucket.org

development

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigms

Tron AI Challenge

• http://tron.aichallenge.org/
• ... coming

languages - general

• 99 bottles of beer in a thousand programming languages
• wikipedia:hello world
• http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html (Sam)

python

• python.org 2.7 docs
• python 2.7 quick reference
• Norm Matloff's Quick Python Tutorials
• codeacademy's - getting started with python
• MIT's gentle introduction to programming using python course
• list of the best free python books
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - Learning with Python: Interactive Edition 2.0
• python math-ish "notebooks"
• SageMath
• IPython
  • http://continuum.io/downloads - "anaconda" distribution of IPython, a particularly nice scientific and notebook based python system
• Run python in a web browser.
  • PyCloud
  • https://www.pythonanywhere.com - includes a bash shell
  • http://pythontutor.com/ - visualize code execution
  • http://picloud.com - run local python function remotely, or run IPython notebooks on theirs.
  • https://www.pythonanywhere.com/try-ipython/ - IPython demo
  • http://cloud.sagemath.com - computation math in the cloud with sagemath

C

• ansi C reference card
• The Descent to C - orientation for folks coming from Python, Java, etc

web

• nodejs.org
• flask.pocoo.org
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ - HTML, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, ...
• XAMPP - quick PHP local web environment

practice : puzzles, exercises, mentoring, ...

• project euler - mathish coding exercises
• http://openhatch.org/ - helping to match coders with open source projects