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Friday, July 27, 2007

To Leech: Torrent Trackers


PRV - private tracker
PUB - public tracker
A - All types of contents
G - Mostly games
P - Mostly porn

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To Read: Python Documentation

Let's say you want to learn the wonderful Python language. Or else, you want to revive your memory. It's useful to have a bunch of quality references for that porpuse:

Tutorials:
http://docs.python.org/tut/ - A complete tutorial by Guido Van Rossum
Crash Course - Crash Course by Stephen Saville and Andrew Lusk (slide based) based on Van Rossum's tutorial (UNIX oriented). Good to learn, great to remember.
Dive Into Python - from novice to pro this book is probably the most complete resource of information about Python by Mark Pilgrim.
A Quick Painless Tutorial On The Python language - A tutorial by Norman Matloff
http://www.upriss.org.uk/python/PythonCourse.html - a Python course by example.
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Python/CatalogPython.htm - a catalog of python examples by categories which is very well organized, complete. It also includes screenshots of the output of examples with its source code.

Other:

http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/python - fast course into main python concepts
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ - How to think like a computer scientist is another introductory material displayed by topic.
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython - Thinking in Python: a book on more advanced concepts like unit testing, Template Method, Iterators, Factories, Function Objects, Table-Driven Code, Callbacks, Multiple Dispatching, Pattern Refactoring and others. It uses examples and a description useful for Java coders.

References:

Python - Official website of Python
Python Reference Manual
Python Library Reference
http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html - Introductory Material in Python. Beyond the less technical introductions take a look at the "Quick References".

Special topics:
Tutorial on Iterators and Generators
Python for Fun - Python for fun is a collection of very interesting python programs on games, interation with other programming languages (ProLog, Lisp), GUI development (Tkinter, WXpython), SQL and more by Chris Meyers.
http://www.learningpython.com/tutorial-index/ - a blog of one man's journey into Python. This post includes a nice tutorial index for python development with GTK and PyGame. Unfortunately, no wxpython...
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_1.html - Charming Python: An introduction to XML tools on Python. (check also http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ for more on text processing in Python)

More - in http://freecomputerbooks.com/ (search for "python")

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