tutorials-and-challenges.md

Tutorials

For absolute beginners

• Invent with Python -- focused on Python itself, with all the examples being games :)

• DjangoGirls -- more focused on web development, so HTML and CSS and server deployments as well as just Python.

For programmers who already know another language

• Dive into Python 3

For people who already know a bit of Python

Try our Python programming challenges, designed to improve your knowledge of some of the more advanced, but more Pythonic, Python features

• list, dict, set comprehensions
• magic methods and duck typing
• decorators
• lambda functions
• context managers
• generators
• and more

For people learning web development in Python

Nothing beats Harry Percival's book for a comprehensive overview of modern software engineering techniques, django, test-driven development, version control workflow, refactoring, and plenty more. [citation required]

For sciencey people:

• Vincent's intro to numpy and pandas notebook

• Try the Jupyter notebook in your browser.

• Check out the Gallery of interesting notebooks to see the many great things Python can do and the Jupyter Notebook Viewer for a way to share notebooks

• top 8 pandas tutorials

• scientific Python lectures: http://github.com/jrjohansson/scientific-python-lectures

• data science Python: http://github.com/donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks

• official Pandas tutorial: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/tutorials.html

• Pandas lessons & tutorials: http://bitbucket.org/hrojas/learn-pandas

• Scikit-learn tutorial by Gael Varoquaux at EP 2014: https://github.com/GaelVaroquaux/sklearn_europython_2014

• simplified text processing with textBlob: https://textblob.readthedocs.org/en/dev/

• official Seaborn tutorial: http://web.stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/tutorial.html#tutorial

• official Bokeh tutorial: http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/tutorials.html