Resources
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In addition to our course, there are countless of excellent books, tutorials and examples related to programming in Python.
Here we list some good places to look for further information.

Books
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There are **no required textbooks** for this course. This course uses a wide range of sources for course information and the main textbooks are given below.

- Recommended textbooks (in order of relevance):

  - Zelle, J. (2010) `Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science <http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ppics2/index.html>`_, Second edition. Franklin, Beedle & Associates.
  - McKinney, W. (2012) `Python for Data Analysis: Data wrangling with Pandas, NumPy and iPython <http://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython/dp/1449319793>`_, First edition. O´Reilly Media.
  -  `Learn Python the Hard Way <http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/>`__
  -  `Dive into Python 3 <http://www.diveinto.org/python3/>`__


Python tutorials
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-  `Codecademy's Learn to program in Python <https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python>`__
-  `Software Carpentry's programming in Python <https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/>`__


Git + Github tutorials
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- `Online "Try-Git" tutorial (learn Git in your browser) <https://try.github.io>`__
- `Git simple guide ("no deep shit") tutorial <http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/>`__
- `Software Carpentry's Git novice tutorial <https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice>`__
- `Git official documentation <https://git-scm.com/>`__
- `Screencast series in Youtube for learning GitHub <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Q4HssKcxYsTuqUUvEHJ8XxOVOHTSmle>`__
- `Tutorial on few extra features of GitHub not (most probably) covered in this course (e.g. branch, pull-request, merge) <https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/>`__
- `A TechCrunch article about 'What is GitHub Anyway?' <https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/what-exactly-is-github-anyway/>`__
- `A list of resources for learning Git and GitHub <https://help.github.com/articles/good-resources-for-learning-git-and-github/>`__