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Coderholic » Blog Archive » 10 Free Python Programming Books: "Below is a collection of 10 great Python programming books that are available online in full, completely free of charge:"

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Python Algorithms: Greedy Coin Changer - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog

Python Algorithms: Greedy Coin Changer - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog: "I am going to make an effort to solve classic computer science problems in Python on a regular basis, and blog about them. It seems like a good way to have some fun. This may be a regular blog series."

PDFMiner

PDFMiner: "PDFMiner is a suite of programs that aims to help analyzing text data from PDF documents. It includes a PDF parser, a PDF renderer (though only rendering text is supported for now), and a couple of nice tools to extract texts. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it allows to obtain the exact location of texts in a page, as well as other layout information such as font size or font name, which could be useful for analyzing the document."

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UPDATED: 10 Must-Have Python Packages for Social Scientists <> Zero Intelligence Agents

UPDATED: 10 Must-Have Python Packages for Social Scientists <> Zero Intelligence Agents: "« 4th UK Social Networks Conference | Main | Markov Mad Libs (using Garfield) »
UPDATED: 10 Must-Have Python Packages for Social Scientists"

SimPy Buch

"Professor Norm Matloff
Dept. of Computer Science
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616

The SimPy discrete-event simulation (DES) language is an open-source project written in Python. The use of Python's high-level constructs greatly simplifies DES programming, and thus also makes it easier to learn DES

I have put together an online textbook which can be used in a DES course (or for self-learning). Copyright N.S. Matloff, 2006-. Permission to use these materials in teaching is granted, provided the copyright page is displayed in each unit. I would appreciate being notified, just for the purpose of knowing the materials are being put to use, but this is not required."

SourceForge.net: Screenshots

SourceForge.net: Screenshots:

"Leo: a programmer's editor & more"

Mittlerweile sind die Screenshots aktualisiert worden. Allerdings wird die Mächtigkeit des Tools daraus nicht ersichtlich.

siafoo.net: Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

"Want to write shorter, cleaner code? Have an unfortunate situation where you need to fit as much as you can in one expression? Prefer a quick dose of hacks to spending the rest of your life reading the docs? You've come to the right place."

Using Git as a versioned data store in Python

"Git has sometimes been described as a versioning file-system which happens to support the underlying notions of version control. And while most people do simply use Git as a version control system, it remains true that it can be used for other tasks as well."

Emacs as a powerful Python IDE

"Last night at the Python user group I gave a short demo on using Emacs as a Python editor/IDE."

EuroPython 2008

"Monday 7th July - Saturday 12th July at the Reval Hotel Lietuva

EuroPython is an annual volunteer-run conference for the communities around the Python programming language, including the Plone and Zope communities."

ShowMeDo: Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python (14 videos)

"Diese Serie von ShowMeDo's führt den Zuschauer in die Programmierung unter Verwendung der Programmiersprache Python ein."

JJinuxLand: Python Werkzeug

JJinuxLand: Python Werkzeug: "I just finished the Werkzeug tutorial, and it looks pretty good.

Werkzeug started as simple collection of various utilities for WSGI applications and has become one of the most advanced WSGI utility modules. It includes a powerful debugger, full featured request and response objects, HTTP utilities to handle entity tags, cache control headers, HTTP dates, cookie handling, file uploads, a powerful URL routing system and a bunch of community contributed addon modules.

Werkzeug is unicode aware and doesn't enforce a specific template engine, database adapter or anything else. It doesn't even enforce a specific way of handling requests and leaves all that up to the developer.

Werkzeug is most useful for end user applications which should work on as many server environments as possible (such as blogs, wikis, bulletin boards, etc.).

Having coded applications in Aquarium, Django, Pylons, Ruby on Rails, Zope, Plone, etc., I've been fascinated by the idea of an anti-framework. A framework establishes the flow of the application and calls your code at certain points. That's the opposite of a library. A library lets you call its code whenever and however you want. Werkzeug is a collection of libraries."

Mike Coyle’s Weblog » Blog Archive » My PM Network Interview, or Tales from the Cutting Room Floor

Mike Coyle’s Weblog » Blog Archive » My PM Network Interview, or Tales from the Cutting Room Floor: "8) What ways can small teams work most effectively to accomplish big tasks?

There are four aspects that drive small-team effectiveness: Planning, Process, Automation, and Asset Management.

* Planning: Small teams need to focus their efforts on understanding how the key moving parts of their project fit together so that they can proactively categorize and manage delivery risk. This is far more important than trying to optimize the workload balancing in your project plan, since you’re not trying to distribute lots of work among interchangeable resources on a large team.
* Process: Small teams should maintain strict adherence to a lightweight process. Individual heroics are not scalable nor predictable over time. Even small teams need to play by the book, but they need to make sure that it’s the right book for them.
* Automation: Small teams need to maximize the amount of work that they don’t do, and focus their efforts on the important stuff. If work cannot be avoided, it should be automated. Computers are really good at doing predictable stuff really fast.
* Asset Management: Small teams should manage their important data using some sort of version control mechanism. A good version control syste"

New Cleo Version

Cleo documentation: "cleo is a Leo plugin which adds arbitrary colouring of nodes, to-do priority markers, and time-required / progress display. Leo is a python based cross-platform outliner / literate programing tool / general data management environment."

--> Current cleo (0.25)"

Overview — Sphinx Documentation

Overview — Sphinx Documentation: "Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

It was originally created to translate the new Python documentation, but has now been cleaned up in the hope that it will be useful to many other projects. (Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx!)"

SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software

SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software: "General and Advanced Pure and Applied Mathematics
Use SAGE for studying a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and exact linear algebra.
Use an Open Source Alternative
By using SAGE you help to support a viable open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB. SAGE includes many high-quality open source math packages."

Pyxer - Python statt (durch) JavaScript

[Der Schockwellenreiter: Weblog-Archiv 07.03.2008]: "Pyxer (GPL) ist ein Python-AJAX-Server und -Framework, ähnlich dem Jaxter-Projekt von Aptana (hier nur mit Java). Es erlaubt, Client- wie auch Server-seitig den Einsatz von Python-Scripten. Diese werden dann vom Server nach JavaScript übersetzt. Das AJAX-Framework läuft transparent im Hintergrund. Sollte ich mal testen. [Peter van I. per Email.]"

Zope.org - Silva Math Released

Zope.org - Silva Math Released: "Silva Math is an extension product for the Silva CMS to enhance documents with mathematical formulas. Mathematical expressions are edited and stored in TeX format and rendered as PNG images. The formulas are embedded into Silva Documents as Code Sources."

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Python Spreadsheet Empowers End Users

Python Spreadsheet Empowers End Users: "REDMOND, Wash. – Consistent with the theme that dynamic languages can be used for general-purpose applications, Resolver Systems is introducing a spreadsheet written in Python."

Publicize PyCon - PyCon 2008 - Chicago - A Conference for the Python Community

Ich fahre wohl leider nicht hin, aber Werbung machen kann ich wohl.. ;-)

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Publicize PyCon - PyCon 2008 - Chicago - A Conference for the Python Community: "PyCon 2008

March 14-16, 2008

http://us.pycon.org

PyCon 2008, the sixth annual community conference for the Python programming language, comes to Chicago this year. The conference takes place March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel.

A rich schedule is being planned, including presentations, keynotes, Lightning Talks, an exhibition hall, and the hands-on Python Lab. Plentiful Open Space has been set aside for Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and other unscheduled 'unconference'-style activity. Several tutorials and talks are designed for new Python users and new programmers specifically.

The conference will be preceded by a day of intensive tutorials (March 13). Afterward, four days of development sprints (March 17-20) will bring participants together for face-to-face cooperation to advance several Python open-source projects.

PyCon attendance grew 44% from 2006 to 2007. PyCon 2008 has already set records for number of talks, tutorials, and sprints scheduled.

Registration is open now. Early-bird registration rates ($400 corporate, $220 hobbyist, $125 student) are available through February 20.

About Python:

Python is a dynamic, open-source programming language suited to many kinds of software development. TIOBE named Python the fastest-growing programming language of 2007. Python is particularly recognized as a valuable language for education. Its ease of use allows quick start-up and progress, yet it also encourages good long-term programming habits and style. Its clear, readable syntax makes cooperation between students and instructors easy. Thanks to its broad capabilities, rich libraries, and vigorous community, Python can continue to be a student's language of choice long after moving from beginner to expert. Python code can run on Java and .NET platforms through the Jython and IronPython implementations.

PyCon: http://us.pycon.org

PyCon blog: http://pycon.blogspot.com/

Python language: http://python.org