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Introductory Material on Python
Introductory Material on Python
High level descriptions
Introductions to Python programming for non-programmers
Introductions for programmers
Full tutorials
Python Tutorial
In the standard documentation, by Guido van Rossum. A classic.
A Byte of Python
Tutorial by Swaroop C H.
The What, Why, Who and Where of Python
In UnixWorld Online, by Aaron Watters. Also a classic.
Appendix E of Mark Lutz' Python book (Programming
Python )
Not available online, but chances are that you own the book and hadn't
noticed this appendix!
Dive Into Python
A free Python tutorial for experienced programmers by Mark Pilgrim.
Scripting course
by Hans Petter Langtangen
A CS course on scripting that spans a wide range: why scripting, Perl
vs. Python, intro to Python, regular expressions, Tkinter, CGI.
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