[Tutor] Non programmer wanting to become programmer

[michael scott]

I am a beginner so I can relate with you, although python is my first programming language, it sounds as if you are coming from another language. Either way, here are some sites I'll collected that have tutorials and are free.

Alan's tutorial (alan is a very active member here)
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/

How to think like a computer scientist (uses python)
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/index.html

Learn python the hard way
http://p2pu.org/webcraft/learn-python-hard-way

The official python tutorial (2.7) (all the versions are available)
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html


If you happen to be a visual / audio learner try these

Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6U-i4gXkLM


Bucky's youtube tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston#p/c/EA1FEF17E1E5C0DA/0/4Mf0h3HphEA

Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986 (uses scheme, but the concepts are highly transferable) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY

If you are planning to go into video game development, I recommend this tutorial
http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

These are just a fraction of the info out there, I found all these links in my journey to get better at programming, so if these links don't suit you, don't be scared to go out there and look.

 

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From: amt <0101amt at gmail.com>
To: tutor at python.org
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:36 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Non programmer wanting to become programmer


First of all, hello!  I want to start learning programming. I'm looking into becoming more than a hobbyist programmer. I searched a lot on Google on what programming language should I learn first and I see a lot of good words about Python so I decided to go for it but have some questions:

1)What book should I start with?  ( I have checked Python for non programmers but there are a lot of titles there, what should I pick first?I was thinking about Invent your own computer games with Python.)


2)Version 2 or version 3? What should I go for as a beginner and why? ( I ask because some books in the Python for non programmers section are for python 2, Invent your own computer games with Python is version 3.)


3)Algorithms, memory management, data structures, when is the right time to learn them? 


Regards, amt.

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