- UNIX Tutorial for Beginners: humane, many helpful illustrations
- egrep for Linguists
- Python 2.7 official documentation, including a good tutorial and the library reference
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Learning with Python
- Learn Python the Hard Way, a great tutorial from Zed Shaw
- PythonInfo Wiki's Language Comparisons: links to many articles comparing Python to other languages
- Python Ecosystem - An Introduction: everything you need to know to get started with Python (aside from how to write Python)
- Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Python
- Python Weekly, "a free weekly newsletter featuring curated news, articles, new releases, jobs etc related to Python."
- Plain English explanation of Big O
- PuTTY, an open-source ssh client for Windows
- WinSCP, a free sftp client for Windows (haven't used it, but looks okay)
- NotePad++, looks like an okay text editor for Windows
- CyberDuck (SFTP client)
- TextWrangler (solid, free text editor for OSX)
- Command-line tools for data science
- Prepared example texts that I reference frequently in class
- Project Gutenberg
- Pywikipediabot, a Python library for jacking text from Mediawikis (like Wikipedia)
- Common Crawl, "a repository of web crawl data that is openly accessible to everyone"
- Corpus of Contemporary American English: search for frequencies and contexts of words and phrases in "the largest freely-available corpus of English." (Provides no API, unfortunately.)
- Wordnik, a dictionary. The Wordnik API "lets you request definitions, example sentences, spelling suggestions, related words like synonyms and antonyms, phrases containing a given word, word autocompletion, random words, words of the day, and much more."
- Corpus resources
- Corpora, "a collection of small corpuses of interesting data for the creation of bots and similar stuff." By Darius Kazemi and various contributors.
- WordNet is, most simply stated, a computer-readable thesaurus of the English language; if you're interested in non-English equivalients, see A Complete Multilingual WordNet List by Language
- Listen and Relate: Towards a Reading of Jackson Mac Low
- Loss Pequeno Glazier, Grep Works
- Alan Sondheim, Julu
- Nick Montfort, ppg256, others
- Ben Johnson's poetry generators (markov, travesty, diastic...)
- Beard of Bees (esp. Gnoetry)
- Gnoetry Daily, a blog of awesome generative and algorithm-assisted poetry
- Charles Berstein on Flarf
- Leonard Richardson, Eater of Meaning (see also Spurious Sonnets, Board Game Dadaist, others)
- David Melnick, PCOET
- Sai Sriskandarajah, The Waste Land
- Chris Harrison, Web Tri-grams
- Stefanie Posavec, On the Map (full portfolio)
- Kyle McDonald, keytweeter (others)
- Nina Katchadourian, Talking Popcorn
- Similar Diversity
- Robert Creeley on the sentence
- Charles Bernstein, 1-100 (mp3)
- Claude Closky, The first thousand numbers classified in alphabetical order
- UbuWeb Conceptual Writing
- PennSound
- Beth Anderson on UbuWeb (especially "I Wish I Was Single Again")
- Caroline Bergvall on UbuWeb (especially "Via")
- Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, Sea and Spar Between
- Luke DuBois, A More Perfect Union; Hindsight is Always 20/20; others
- Charles Berstein's English 262 syllabus
- Ethan Ham and Benjamin Rosenbaum, Les Belles Infideles
- Big Writing, a blog from your humble instructor
- Jaap Blonk on Pennsound, including "What The President Will Say and Do"
- Mobile poetics: a select bibliography of digital textuality/art apps
- Don't even talk to me about Horse Ebooks; Horse Ebooks broke my heart; The End of Horsebooks Is Hardly the End of Anything; Ebooks Brilhantes is the living dream of Horse Ebooks
- A Scrabble Tile Poem; other constrained writing from Mike Keith
- Nantucket: an accidental limerick detector; more from Danielle Sucher
- Dymaxion Automatic Buckminster Fuller
- Drunk Eliza and more from Daniel Temkin
- Sonny Rae Tempest
- Common Tongues; more from Daniel Howe
- Pentametron; more from Ranjit Bhatnagar
- Metaphor-a-Minute and more "weird Internet stuff" from Darius Kazemi
- New York Review of Bots
- A Short Digital Humanities Bibliography for Text Analysis
- Commandline Poster Generation
- David Bowen's fly tweet
- ... and by islands I mean paragraphs; and more from J.R. Carpenter
- We Built This City; more from Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim