Links

• Python Programming Language – Official Website
• Think Python Version 2.0.12 by Allen Downey
  Available as a free PDF.
  Somewhat advanced for IT students.
• Python Download Site
• Common Unix Commands
  A short list of some of the more useful Unix commands we have encountered in this course, with information on how to use them.
• Python Basic Operators
• Python Built-In Functions Official documentation for Python's built-in functions
• Python Keywords A list of all words that have special meaning in Python
• Unicode Character Table
• UTF-8 Character Table A list of all characters in UTF-8 with their numerical equivalents.
• Python Lists
• nano
  Help for nano, a simple Unix text editor.
• 5 Popular Tricks to Customize Nano Editor
• vi Cheat Sheet
  A PDF file with the most important vi commands.
• Math functions
  Official documentations of the functions contained the the math module.
• ASCII Characters A table of the characters the make up the ASCII code.

Software

• PuTTY
  PuTTY is an ssh client for windows, which you can download for free from the above link. It allows you to connect remotely to the machine we'll be using at UMB for this course. The is no comparable package for Macintosh, because the Mac runs a flavor of Unix, which means you can run ssh from the command line on a Mac.