Python-Resources-2019

A curated list of Python 3 resources, books, websites, tutorials, code challenges. If you have any suggestions for additions to the list please open an issue.

Books

• Learn Python 3 the Hard Way A good starting place if you are new to python. Note there's earlier version Learn Python the Hard Way that covers Python 2.

• Learning Python Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book.Complete with quizzes, exercises, and helpful illustrations, this easy-to-follow, self-paced tutorial gets you started with both Python 2.x and 3.x

• Python Crash Course A hands-on, project-based introduction to programming.

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Online Edition Practical programming for complete beginners.

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition

Coding Challenges

• Stepik 100s of problems with adaptive difficulty. After solving a few problems Stepik provides a free 3 month (renewable) Educational License for the complete JetBrains suite, including PyCharm Pro.

• CheckIO Coding games for beginners and advanced programmers where you can improve your coding skills by solving engaging challenges and fun task using Python, has PyCharm integration.

• Codewars is where developers achieve code mastery through challenge. Train on kata in the dojo and reach your highest potential.

• The Python Challenge 33 python puzzles to challenge your skills. kuzmich has a nicely done python-challenge-solution

• Hacker Rank 100s of Python problems for you to solve, solutions available after completing the problems.

Community

• CodeTriage Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it. Pick your favorite repos to receive a different open issue in your inbox every day. Fix the issue and everybody wins. 43,662 developers are working on 4,493 open source repos using CodeTriage.

• stackoverflow If you have a question you'll almost always find an answer here.

• Python on Reddit

  • /r/learnpython Subreddit for posting questions and asking for general advice about your python code.
  • /r/python News about the dynamic, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language Python.
  • /r/learnprogramming A subreddit for all questions related to programming in any language.
  • /r/dailyprogrammer — The focus of this subreddit is to provide bi-daily challenges to keep your mind and fingers busy between projects.
  • /r/progether — Progether is about bringing programmers together on common projects, whether it is learning or developing or designing or what have you.
  • /r/LearnMachineLearning — A subreddit dedicated for learning machine learning.
  • /r/PythonPuzzles ­— Regular code puzzles in the Python programming languages

Documentation

• Python 3.7.4 documentation

• Quick sphinx primer

Git

• GitHub Help Help with all things Git.

• Learn Git Branching

GUI related

• PySimpleGUI Python GUI For Humans - Transforms tkinter, Qt, Remi, WxPython into a people-friendly Pythonic interfaces

• Tkinter Tutorial Learn how to develop graphical user interfaces by writing some Python GUI examples using Tkinter package.

• Introduction to PyQt4 An introductory PyQt4 tutorial

• Program Arcade Games With Python And Pygame

IDEs

• PyCharm Community Edition A great free IDE, has most of the features you'll want. After solving a few challenge problems you can get a free 3 month Educational License (renewable) for the Professional Version from Stepik that is valid for the entire JetBrains suite.

  • Getting Started with PyCharm video tutorials

• Anaconda "The open-source Anaconda Distribution is the easiest way to perform Python/R data science and machine learning on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X"

  • Quickly download 1,500+ Python/R data science packages
  • Manage libraries, dependencies, and environments with Conda
  • Develop and train machine learning and deep learning models with scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and Theano
  • Analyze data with scalability and performance with Dask, NumPy, pandas, and Numba
  • Visualize results with Matplotlib, Bokeh, Datashader, and Holoviews

Packages

• pipreqs Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project

• Python Web Scraping Using BeautifulSoup

• PySimpleGUI Python GUI For Humans - Transforms tkinter, Qt, Remi, WxPython into portable people-friendly Pythonic interfaces

• Pysnooper Never use print for debugging again

Practice Problems with Solutions

• w3resource's Python Exercises, 100s of exercises with solutions, includes several external packages.

• Practice Python Over 30 beginner Python exercises with solutions

• 100+ Python challenging programming exercises

Python Cheat Sheets

• Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet

• Python Cheatsheet

• Learn X in Y minutes Where X=python3

Sample Code

• PythonStdioGames A collection of text-based games written in Python 3 that only use "standard i/o". By Al Sweigart of inventwithpython.com, it's aimed at being easy to copy and understand by beginners.

• My Python Examples These scripts contain important functions which help reduce human workload.

• ActiveState Code » Recipes Popular Python recipes

• pythonforbeginners Code-snippets

• CodesCracker Python Programming Examples

Solutions

• Hitchhikers scenario-guide-for-python-applications

• Awesome Python "A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources"

Style Guides

• PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

• Google Python Style Guide

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python

Testing

• pysnooper PySnooper - Never use print for debugging again

• Improve Your Python: Understanding Unit Testing

• Getting Started With Testing in Python

Tutorials

• w3schools Python Tutorial Clear and concise.

• Programiz Learn Python Programming: The Definitive Guide

• Python for Everybody A full Python course.

• Codecademy Codecademy has a free 7 day trial, and has several Python courses.

• The Python Tutorial The official tutorial.

• Google's Python Class Videos and exercises from a two day Python class.

• pythonprogramming.net A number of python tutorials.

• Real Python Tutorials Short tutorials on a wide range of subjects.

• Sololearn Python Class Learn on the web and on the go. Available on all major devices and platforms.

• pythonprogramming.net Python Programming tutorials from beginner to advanced on a massive variety of topics.

• Clean architectures in Python: a step-by-step example

Youtube

• Corey Schafer Among the best Python Tutorial videos.

Other Resources

• Pixabay Over 1 million+ high quality stock images and videos shared by our talented community.

• DatahubIO Datahub provides important, commonly-used data as high quality, easy-to-use and open data packages.