Python Resources

1) Installing Python 3.2 on Windows or a Mac

2) Powerpoint Presentations outlining each chapter in our required textook: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ppics2/slides/

3) Official Python Documentation The Python homepage is python.org. All of the following is available starting from that site, but most of it requires some digging to reach. Here are a few pages on that site that you may occasionally reference:

• Python v3.2.2 documentation -- This is the home page for the official documentation

• The Python Tutorial -- Brief coverage of the basics of Python; a nice place to look for reminders of how basic statements and functions are used

• Python Standard Library -- Briefly covers all of the standard functions; sections that are of particular interest to beginners include the following:

  • IDLE overview

  • Built-In functions (including print, input, eval, range, ...)

  • Mathematical functions

  • Turtle graphics functions

  • Pseudo-random number functions

  • Time functions

  • String methods

  • File (stream) I/O. Specifically:

    • open()

    • read()

    • close(), readline(), and readlines()

  • List (a.k.a. Mutable Sequence Type) methods