Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering
Programming Fundamentals
Instance: 2020/2021
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• The Python Tutorial — "official" tutorial introduces the reader informally to the basic concepts and features of the Python language and system.
• The Python Language Reference — "official" reference manual describes the syntax and “core semantics” of the language. It is terse, but attempts to be exact and complete.
• The Python Standard Library — "official"/technical explanation of what a particular function/operator does, examples of correct syntax, what the various libraries are, etc.

• Peter Wentworth, Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Learning with Python 3, Release 3rd Edition, 2019, PDF HTML
• Steven F. Lott, Building Skills in Python - A Programmer's Introduction to Python, FreeTechBooks, 2010 HTML
• David Mertz, Functional Programming in Python, O’Reilly Media, 2015 PDF
• Guttag, John. Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python: With Application to Understanding Data, Second Edition. MIT Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780262529624
• Ernesto Costa, Introdução à Programação e Resolução de Problemas com Python, FCA, 2015, ISBN: 9789727228164
• João Pavão Martins, Programação em Python - Introdução à Programação Utilizando Múltiplos Paradigmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, 2ª edição, 2017, ISBN: 9789898481474

• The Official Python Tutorial — self-explanatory
• Reserved Keywords in Python — don't use these as variable names
• PEP 8: Style Guide for Python Code — learn what is good and bad style in Python
• Python Tutor — interactive tutorial sequence of exercises
• MIT 6.0001 @ OCW — materials from the MIT course "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python"
• CheckIO — learn Python by exploring a game world
• Invent with Python — develop your Python skills by making games or hacking ciphers
• Codecademy — learn Python3 by building web apps and manipulating data; interactive tutorial sequence
• learnpython.org — another interactive Python tutorial
• Python for Beginners by Microsoft — YouTube videos on "Programming with Python"
• Stack Overflow — a large Q&A forum for programming concepts (not just Python)
• PythonBooks — directory of available books

• Anaconda Python — Python Scientific Distribution (package manager, environment manager and Python distribution with a collection of 1,000+ open source packages)
• Anaconda install — Anaconda requirements & installation
• Miniconda — Minimal installer for conda
• Spyder (Scientific Python Development Environment) — an IDE useful for writing, running, and debugging code
• Pylint — a lint tool that uses heuristics to catch bugs in your code
• Python Tutor — an excellent way to actually visualize how the interpreter actually reads and executes your code
• Pygame — a library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the SDL library

• Play — FPRO's playground
• Test — FPRO's tool to test and grade submissions of RE & PE
• w3schools — very simple ones
• Practice Python — not so simple
• w3resource — extensive and diverse
• leetcode — exercises and more (requires sign-up)
• geeksforgeeks — not only for Python
• Google search — google for more

• Project Euler — additional programming challenges you can try once your Python knowledge becomes stronger
• HackerRank — HackerRank team is on a mission to match every developer in the world to the right job by providing a technical recruiting platform that assesses developers based on actual coding skills
• Coding Bat — problems you can solve within an online interpreter
• Python Challenge — a series of puzzles you can try to test your Python abilities
• Codewars — improve your skills by training on real code challenges

— FPRO, 2020/21