Programming - Algorithms [CT240]

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online guides and tutorials on programming - algorithms	http://python.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language) http://hetland.org/writing/instant-python.html http://www.strout.net/python/tidbits.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocpyth.htm http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/ http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html http://docs.python.org/tut/ http://www.sthurlow.com/python/ http://www.diveintopython.org/
books on programming - algorithms	This course does not follow one particular text. It is recommended to dip in and out of the following: Core Python programming Chun, Wesley `Prentice-Hall` Programming Python Lutz, Mark `O'Reilly` Python in a nutshell Martelli, Alex `O'Reilly` Dive into Python Pilgrim, Mark `Springer-Verlag` Python Programming: an introduction to computer science Zelle, John `Franklin, Beedle` Learning Python Lutz, Mark `O'Reilly` Python Standard Library Lundh, Fredrik `O'Reilly` Python Essential Reference Beazley, David `Pearson Education` and many other books at http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/