• General Overview
  This overview outlines the material covered in a typical offering of CSC/CPE 101. You should read through the outline to get a sense of the breadth of topics, and the depth within each topic, studied in CSC/CPE 101.

• Books
  • Think Python - How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
    This is the text recommended for the course. It is targeted at those without programming experience.
    
    
  • Learn Python the Hard Way
    This text presents instruction on programming and Python in an exercise-driven manner.
    
    

• Tutorials
  • Python.org's Tutorial
    This tutorial introduces the Python programming language in great depth. It covers much more than CSC/CPE 101. If you follow this tutorial, you can match the topics to the outline provided in the course overview.
    
    
  • learnpython.org's Tutorial
    This tutorial introduces the Python programming language thrugh interactive, in-browser exercises. The topics are split into Basics and Advanced. The Basics (skipping Dictionaries) supplemented by the List Comprehensions and Exception Handling from Advanced should cover the language material from CSC/CPE 101.
    
    
  • Codecademy
    This tutorial introduces much of the Python language through a series of exercises, but it violates many programming best practices.
    
    
  • Python for Java Programmers
    This tutorial introduces the features of Python by linking them to the corresponding concepts in Java. This may serve as a good reference for those "I know how I would do this in Java" moments.
    
    
  • After Hours Programming Python Tutorial
    This is a completely superficial overview of the Python syntax.
    
    

• Tools
  • Python Tutor

• unittest documentation
  Later courses may require that you use the unittest framework introduced in CPE/CSC 101.

Later courses will assume that you are comfortable working in a Unix environment. You can log onto the department servers to practice basic commands.

• Tutorials 1 & 2
• Parts 1-5

Though there is no requirement that a specific editor be used, the following are some options (pick one from the first three) that you might consider studying for use in later courses (aside from the obvious Java IDEs) or specifically for Python.

• emacs tutorial
• vi tutorial
• Sublime Text
• PyCharm