Python Resources

Documentation

• Official Python 3 Documentation - “official”
• PEP 8 - Style Guide for Python Code

Textbooks

• Dive Into Python survey of Python syntax, datatypes, etc.
• Think Python by Allen Downey - general overview of the Python language. Includes exercises.
• Learn Python the Hard Way free online text
• Get Programming: Learn to Code with Python by Ana Bell - a basic intro to programming
• Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho - an advanced book

Tutorials

• The Official Python Tutorial
• Reserved Keywords in Python
• CheckIO - learn Python by exploring a game world
• Invent with Python - develop your Python skills by making games or hacking ciphers
• Codecademy - (note: for Python 2) learn Python by building web apps and manipulating data; interactive tutorial sequence
• Python Tutor - interactive tutorial sequence of exercises
• Blog with tutorials
• Study Guide

Debugging

• Python Tutor - an excellent way to actually visualize how the interpreter actually reads and executes your code
• DiffChecker - compares two sets of text and shows you which lines are different
• Debugging in Python - steps you can take to try to debug your program

Software

• Python Tools for Visual Studio - Visual Studio plug-in enabling Python programming

Q&A

• Stack Overflow - a large Q&A forum for programming concepts.

More practice problems

• Python Challenge - a series of puzzles
• Project Euler - additional programming challenges
• Coding Bat - problems you can solve within an online interpreter
• Codewars - improve your skills by training on real code challenges