3 resources for learning python that I used this week ending 6/12/20

stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python)

Python 3.9 documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/)

w3resource's Python Exercises (https://www.w3resource.com/python-exercises/), 100s of exercises with solutions,

includes several external packages.

Python-Resources-2019

Updated 11/19/20 A curated list of Python 3 resources, books, websites, tutorials, code challenges. If you have any suggestions for additions to the list please open an issue.

Books

• Learn Python 3 the Hard Way A good starting place if you are new to python. Note there's earlier version Learn Python the Hard Way that covers Python 2.

• Learning Python Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book.Complete with quizzes, exercises, and helpful illustrations, this easy-to-follow, self-paced tutorial gets you started with both Python 2.x and 3.x

• Python Crash Course A hands-on, project-based introduction to programming.

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Online Edition Practical programming for complete beginners.

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition

• Python Cookbook: Recipes for Mastering Python 3 - If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket.

Classes

• JetBrains Academy Free trial on JetBrains Academy. If you are looking for a complete course start here, the Python track. "It's a one-stop shop for reading about concepts, practicing them and then immediately applying them in projects. An all-in-one learning tool."

Coding Challenges

• Stepik 100s of problems with adaptive difficulty. After solving a few problems Stepik provides a free 3 month (renewable) Educational License for the complete JetBrains suite, including PyCharm Pro.

• CheckIO Coding games for beginners and advanced programmers where you can improve your coding skills by solving engaging challenges and fun task using Python, has PyCharm integration.

• Codewars is where developers achieve code mastery through challenge. Train on kata in the dojo and reach your highest potential.

• The Python Challenge 33 python puzzles to challenge your skills. kuzmich has a nicely done python-challenge-solution

• Hacker Rank 100s of Python problems for you to solve, solutions available after completing the problems.

Community

• CodeTriage Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it. Pick your favorite repos to receive a different open issue in your inbox every day. Fix the issue and everybody wins. 43,662 developers are working on 4,493 open source repos using CodeTriage.

• stackoverflow If you have a question you'll almost always find an answer here.

• Python on Reddit

  • /r/learnpython Subreddit for posting questions and asking for general advice about your python code.
  • /r/python News about the dynamic, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language Python.
  • /r/learnprogramming A subreddit for all questions related to programming in any language.
  • /r/dailyprogrammer — The focus of this subreddit is to provide bi-daily challenges to keep your mind and fingers busy between projects.
  • /r/progether — Progether is about bringing programmers together on common projects, whether it is learning or developing or designing or what have you.
  • /r/LearnMachineLearning — A subreddit dedicated for learning machine learning.
  • /r/PythonPuzzles ­— Regular code puzzles in the Python programming languages

Django

• Bootstrap Get started with Bootstrap, the world’s most popular framework for building responsive, mobile-first sites, with BootstrapCDN and a template starter page.

• Django, Docker, and PostgreSQL Tutorial In this tutorial we will create a new Django project using Docker and PostgreSQL. Django ships with built-in SQLite support but even for local development you are better off using a "real" database like PostgreSQL that matches what is in production. (pipenv)

• Docker: Quickstart: Compose and Django This quick-start guide demonstrates how to use Docker Compose to set up and run a simple Django/PostgreSQL app. (venv)

• Getting started with Django The official tutorial.

• Corey Schafer Python Django Tutorials In this series, we will be learning how to build a full-featured Django application for scratch. We will learn how to get started with Django, use templates, create a database, upload pictures, create an authentication system, and much much more.

• Django Source Code Great for searching when looking for what text Django was using by default but it wasn’t clear where in the Django source code it was written.

Documentation

• Python 3.9 documentation

• Quick sphinx primer

Flask

• The Flask Mega-Tutorial

• Flask Tutorial HackersAndSlackers Create web applications and APIs with Python’s most popular framework. We cover everything from routing, database integrations, user accounts, and more.

Free

• Free for developers Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions. This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

Git

• GitHub Help Help with all things Git.

• Github Profile Readme Templates A curated list of awesome Github Profile Readme Templates.

• Learn Git Branching

GUI related

• Dear PyGui Dear PyGui is a simple to use (but powerful) Python GUI framework. DearPyGui provides a wrapping of DearImGui that provides a hybrid of a traditional retained mode GUI and Dear ImGui's immediate mode paradigm.

• Introduction to PyQt4 An introductory PyQt4 tutorial

• Learn PyQt Create GUI applications with Python 3 and Qt5, using PyQt5/PySide libraries. Basic and advanced topics.

• Program Arcade Games With Python And Pygame

• PySimpleGUI Python GUI For Humans - Transforms tkinter, Qt, Remi, WxPython into a people-friendly Pythonic interfaces

• Tkinter Tutorial Learn how to develop graphical user interfaces by writing some Python GUI examples using Tkinter package.

HTML

• CodePen An online code editor, learning environment, and community for front-end web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets.

• HTML Reference

IDEs

• PyCharm Community Edition A great free IDE, has most of the features you'll want. After solving a few challenge problems you can get a free 3 month Educational License (renewable) for the Professional Version from Stepik that is valid for the entire JetBrains suite.

  • Getting Started with PyCharm video tutorials

• Anaconda "The open-source Anaconda Distribution is the easiest way to perform Python/R data science and machine learning on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X"

  • Quickly download 1,500+ Python/R data science packages
  • Manage libraries, dependencies, and environments with Conda
  • Develop and train machine learning and deep learning models with scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and Theano
  • Analyze data with scalability and performance with Dask, NumPy, pandas, and Numba
  • Visualize results with Matplotlib, Bokeh, Datashader, and Holoviews

• Spyder Spyder is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts.

• Jupyter JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter notebooks, code, and data.

Packages

• BeautifulSoup Python Web Scraping Using BeautifulSoup

• django Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

• pipreqs Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project

• pipenv Pipenv Cheat Sheet

• pyGame Introduction to PyGame.

• PySimpleGUI Python GUI For Humans - Transforms tkinter, Qt, Remi, WxPython into portable people-friendly Pythonic interfaces

• pysnooper Never use print for debugging again

• Useful Python modules A collections of useful Python modules, in a little to no order whatsoever…

Practice Problems with Solutions

• w3resource's Python Exercises, 100s of exercises with solutions, includes several external packages.

• Practice Python Over 30 beginner Python exercises with solutions

• 100+ Python challenging programming exercises

Python Cheat Sheets

• Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet

• Python Cheatsheet

• Learn X in Y minutes Where X=python3

Regex

• Awesome Regex A curated collection of awesome Regex libraries, tools, frameworks and software.

• Regex Pal A regular expression tester.

Sample Code

• PythonStdioGames A collection of text-based games written in Python 3 that only use "standard i/o". By Al Sweigart of inventwithpython.com, it's aimed at being easy to copy and understand by beginners.

• My Python Examples These scripts contain important functions which help reduce human workload.

• ActiveState Code » Recipes Popular Python recipes

• pythonforbeginners Code-snippets

• CodesCracker Python Programming Examples

Solutions

• Hitchhikers scenario-guide-for-python-applications

• Awesome Python "A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources"

Stydy Guides

• A syllabus for learning Python and Django

• Ultimate Python study guide Ultimate Python study guide for newcomers and professionals alike.

Style Guides

• PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising the standard library in the main Python distribution.

• Google Python Style Guide

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python

Testing

• pysnooper PySnooper - Never use print for debugging again

• Improve Your Python: Understanding Unit Testing

• Getting Started With Testing in Python

Tutorials

• Django Includes basic and advanced tutorials.

• w3schools Python Tutorial Clear and concise.

• Programiz Learn Python Programming: The Definitive Guide

• Python for Everybody A full Python course.

• Codecademy Codecademy has a free 7 day trial, and has several Python courses.

• The Python Tutorial The official tutorial.

• Google's Python Class Videos and exercises from a two day Python class.

• pythonprogramming.net A number of python tutorials.

• Real Python Tutorials Short tutorials on a wide range of subjects.

• Sololearn Python Class Learn on the web and on the go. Available on all major devices and platforms.

• Udemy Offers a free Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming course.

• pythonprogramming.net Python Programming tutorials from beginner to advanced on a massive variety of topics.

• Clean architectures in Python: a step-by-step example

• Python Tutorial

Youtube

• Corey Schafer Among the best Python Tutorial videos.

• 10 Python Tips and Tricks For Writing Better Code

• Python Programming for Network Engineers A Youtube course on Python programming/automation for network engineers.

Other Resources

• Pixabay Over 1 million+ high quality stock images and videos shared by our talented community.

• DatahubIO Datahub provides important, commonly-used data as high quality, easy-to-use and open data packages.

• ImageFu A good tool to create button images.