aksh/cs-python.md

• NLP
• HDF5
• MOOC

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• Python is easier to learn than C/C++, http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/01/29/stefik-siebert-syntax.html

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NLP

• http://NLTK.org

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HDF5

• https://github.com/h5io/h5io

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Build

setup.py

• https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/setup.py
• https://docs.python.org/3.4/distutils/setupscript.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5932804/set-file-permission-in-setup-py-file/25761434#25761434

Conda

• http://conda.pydata.org/docs/intro.html#conda-overview

.pythonrc.py

• http://eseth.org/2008/pimping-pythonrc.html
• https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html
• http://dlo.me/archives/2014/09/08/pythonrc/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/2fun6t/how_to_supercharge_your_python_shell_with_a/
• http://www.sontek.net/blog/2010/12/28/tips_and_tricks_for_the_python_interpreter.html
• http://rc98.net/pystartup
• IPYNB, http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/inpy

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Julia-via-Anaconda

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-dev/-B90BrkzM6E
• https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia

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Tox

• https://testrun.org/tox/latest/example/basic.html#depending-on-requirements-txt
• https://testrun.org/tox/latest/config.html

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MATH

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7160926/how-to-solve-an-integral-equation-in-python
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16275352/how-to-solve-integration-using-simpsons-rule-in-python

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Programming

Exceptions

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21211006/how-to-catch-all-old-style-class-exceptions-in-python

Classes-Metaclasses-Functions-Methods

• http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/2/13/moar-classes/
• Metaclass: https://github.com/njsmith/metamodule#how-it-works

schedule tasks

• http://www.fbeedle.com/python/99-6ch02.pdf

BAD programming habits

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21553327/why-is-except-pass-a-bad-programming-practice
• Private methods and name mangling, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1301346/the-meaning-of-a-single-and-a-double-underscore-before-an-object-name-in-python

Interactive Python

• http://www.codeskulptor.org/coursera/syllabus.html
• Ex: http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user2-T5HQQkgicddJyTs-0.py

MOOC

• MIT's "gentle" introduction to Python : http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/
• MIT's Python class: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/
• Think Python: http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html
• Codingbat: Online test cases to practice python and Java, http://codingbat.com/