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This is only the beginning – where do we go from here?
These experiments may have left you exhausted and slightly confused, but I hope that they have also whetted your appetite to learn more about computer programming, computer science and computing in general. This is only the beginning. This isn’t a reference manual or a tutorial but the Python language comes with a comprehensive reference guide. If you don’t have access to the internet, you can access the guide by typing:
$ pydoc -g &
Select “open browser” from the dialogue box that appears. This may take 20 seconds to appear, so be patient. From here, you can see all the Python documentation, PyGame and numpy. If you do have access to the internet, there are plenty of resources covering how to program using Python. Now you have a skill for entering code, running code and hopefully toying with it, you can find out much more here:
l Beginner’s reading http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers l Learning with Python http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/ l Learn Python The Hard Way http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ l Invent with Python http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/ l Python Tutorial http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
When you are stuck you can try the main source of all knowledge (for Python). For instance, information about str, chr, file, random, math, PySide, and heapq can be found at:
l Python Library Reference http://docs.python.org/library/ l PySide http://www.pyside.org/docs/pyside/ l PyGame http://www.pygame.org
l Python Package Index http://pypi.python.org
For information about print, while, yield, for, break, pass look at:
l Python Language Reference http://docs.python.org/reference/
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