Python for Programmers

The tutorials on this page are aimed at people who have previous experience with other programming languages (C, Perl, Lisp, Visual Basic).

• Python Tutorial
  This tutorial is part of Python's documentation set and is updated with each new release.
• Dive Into Python
  A fine tutorial by Mark Pilgrim.
• Python Essential Reference (book)
  If you want a highly compressed K&R-style 'just the facts' overview, David Beazley's Python Essential Reference covers practically all of the language in about a hundred pages.
• Instant Python
  A minimal crash course by Magnus Lie Hetland.
• Python Programming for Beginners
  A short introduction to writing command-line applications in Python by Jacek Artymiak.
• Python 101 - Beginning Python and Python 201 - (Slightly) Advanced Python
  Two self-training courses from Dave Kuhlman. Python 101 introduces the basic data types, and 201 covers particular tasks such as parsing text and writing unit tests.
• Python Short Course
  A set of course slides by Richard P. Muller of Caltech that are aimed at scientific users. For example, the first example is a script to process output from a quantum chemistry simulation.
• Scripting course by Hans Petter Langtangen
  A CS course on scripting that spans a wide range: why scripting, Perl vs. Python, intro to Python, regular expressions, Tkinter, CGI.
• Python for Science
  Course material written by Konrad Hinsen for an introduction to Python aimed at biologists.