This is a list of free online books and other resources for anybody interested in learning the Python programming language. There are other lists out there, this one contains only items, that I have personally tried and found useful.

• Codecademy: A website with interactive tutorials.
• PythonLearn: A website and a book with videos and autograded exercises. It is the material used for the Coursera-course Programming for Everybody by Charles Severance.
• Udacity: Intro to Computer Science & Programming CS 101: A complete introduction to Computer Science with Python.
• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: A book that is also an introduction to Computer Science as well as an introduction to Python. If you have succeded in learning Python (at least to a reasonable degree), the author might still be of interest to you, there are some more advanced books on his website.
• Learn Python The Hard Way: A very good book about Python and Programming in general. Not really hard.
• Last but not least: The Python Tutorial - The official tutorial by Python.org.

Have fun!

So CS 50 has officially begun. Time to get my computer ready for the work.

The installation and use of the appliance is covered in great detail on the coursepages, so there is no need to describe it here. What I do different is that I plan to work mostly outside of the appliance, because my computer is barely able to run it and it is a pain in the backside to use it for longer periods (It’s an old laptop, that wasn’t powerful even when it was new.).

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, short SICP is a great book and Emacs is a great tool for all things about text. So it is only natural to use one with the other and yesterday I stumbled upon this blogpost: SICP in Emacs. Sadly I had no idea about how to use or install a book in the info-system. That had to change a bit and the following will be instruction for me in the future, should I forget how to bring the greatest CS-book of the 80ies into one of the greatest programs from the 80ies.

UPDATE: I removed the processing.js from the head, because it meant unneccessary page load on the blog and because P5.js. It also works, if you put it in the article, like I did here, after the “more”-break, so that it only loads when someone is actually viewing the post that contains the Processing example.

Some notes about Processing

Einfach mal: “Hallo!”

Nachdem ich dieses Blog nun eingerichtet habe, könnte es sein, dass ich hier auch mal was schreibe.