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Learn python with friends Lets do some python! Some ideas of what to work on are...

1. Project Euler
2. Simple games
3. Exercises and examples
4. Anything you want other's feedback on

Feel free to add or change anything here.

Resources:

Anyone should feel free to include resources that they feel were particularly helpful.

Beginner

Blog Outlining Coding Resource Websites

• http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/6-inspiring-websites-that-teach-you-to-code-1616821169/+barrett

Great Free Book for Beginners

• http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf

Google's Python Introduction

• https://developers.google.com/edu/python/introduction?csw=1

Mostly Free Python Resource and Exercises

• http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

Never Ending Problem Set for Programmers

Very good at learning how computers do things, not really endless...

• https://projecteuler.net/

Mostly Free Resource and Strategy Guide

Focused on Django for Web Design.

• http://lifehacker.com/how-i-taught-myself-to-code-in-eight-weeks-511615189

Python and Windows API

Short win32py manual that is a bit out of date.

• ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/convention/os/tutorial/PythonWindowsTutorial.PDF

Plotting Examples w/ Matplotlib

• http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html

Scipy Cookbook

• http://wiki.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/

Git Basics

• http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

Markdown and Git Markdown Basics

Standard basics.

• https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics

Git flavor basics.

• https://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/

Very Helpful Analysis /w Open Source Intro Book

Can download as PDF.

• http://it-ebooks.info/book/624/

Intermediate

XKCD Style Plots w/ Matplotlib

• http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-in-matplotlib/

Python Logging

• http://pingbacks.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/python-logging-tutorial/

SSH in Python

• http://jessenoller.com/2009/02/05/ssh-programming-with-paramiko-completely-different/

Python SQLite3 Tutorial

A good intro to working with databases.

• http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/sqlite3_database.html

Email HTML Embedding for Text and Images

• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473810/

Introduction to Data Mining via Programming

• http://guidetodatamining.com/

Advanced

Python Descriptor Guide

• https://docs.python.org/2/howto/descriptor.html

Python 'Magic Methods' Examples:

Alter properties that handle how python builtins interact with objects.

• http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html#callable

Python Metaclasses

Use of metaclasses is not very common and can be quite difficult.

• http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/12/01/a-primer-on-python-metaclasses/

SQLite3 Performace w/ Large Database Sizes

Very handy if using SQLite shards for large storage.

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/784173/what-are-the-performance-characteristics-of-sqlite-with-very-large-database-file

Hadoop Map Reduce Queries Using STDIN/STDOUT

Advanced data structures are accessable via with map reduce and semi-structured data.

• http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/writing-an-hadoop-mapreduce-program-in-python/