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Python-Resources-2019

Updated 8/22/2022 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.

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API's

  • Public APIs A collective list of 1400+ free APIs for use in software and web development.

Books

Charles Degraft-Johnson Resources

Classes

  • Python Programming MOOC 2022 Introduction to Programming course (BSCS1001, 5 cr) and the Advanced Course in Programming (BSCS1002, 5 cr) from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. Both are free worldwide!

  • JetBrains Academy Free trial on JetBrains Academy. If you are looking for a complete course start here, the Python track. "It's a one-stop shop for reading about concepts, practicing them and then immediately applying them in projects. An all-in-one learning tool."

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.

Django

  • Bootstrap Get started with Bootstrap, the world’s most popular framework for building responsive, mobile-first sites, with BootstrapCDN and a template starter page.

  • Django Classy Class-Based Views Detailed descriptions, with full methods and attributes, for each of Django's class-based generic views.

  • Django, Docker, and PostgreSQL Tutorial In this tutorial we will create a new Django project using Docker and PostgreSQL. Django ships with built-in SQLite support but even for local development you are better off using a "real" database like PostgreSQL that matches what is in production. (pipenv)

  • Django documentation Everything you need to know about Django.

  • Docker: Quickstart: Compose and Django This quick-start guide demonstrates how to use Docker Compose to set up and run a simple Django/PostgreSQL app. (venv)

  • Getting started with Django The official tutorial.

  • Corey Schafer Python Django Tutorials In this series, we will be learning how to build a full-featured Django application for scratch. We will learn how to get started with Django, use templates, create a database, upload pictures, create an authentication system, and much much more.

  • Django Source Code Great for searching when looking for what text Django was using by default but it wasn’t clear where in the Django source code it was written.

Documentation

Flask

Free

  • Free for developers Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions. This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

  • Happy Coding: freecodecamp Practice is the key. Practice, practice, practice.

  • Python projects Learn Python by working with curated projects. Use DevProjects to bridge the gap between theory and real-world code. Use it as practice or to enhance your portfolio.

Git

GUI related

  • Dear PyGui Dear PyGui is a simple to use (but powerful) Python GUI framework. DearPyGui provides a wrapping of DearImGui that provides a hybrid of a traditional retained mode GUI and Dear ImGui's immediate mode paradigm.

  • Introduction to PyQt4 An introductory PyQt4 tutorial

  • Learn PyQt Create GUI applications with Python 3 and Qt5, using PyQt5/PySide libraries. Basic and advanced topics.

  • Program Arcade Games With Python And Pygame

  • 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.

HTML

  • pyscript Run python files inside html. PyScript is a Pythonic alternative to Scratch, JSFiddle, and other "easy to use" programming frameworks, with the goal of making the web a friendly, hackable place where anyone can author interesting and interactive applications.

  • CodePen An online code editor, learning environment, and community for front-end web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets.

  • HTML Reference

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.

  • 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
  • Spyder Spyder is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts.

  • Jupyter JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter notebooks, code, and data.

Packages

  • MechanicalSoup A Python library for automating interaction with websites. MechanicalSoup automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, and can follow links and submit forms. It doesn’t do Javascript.

  • BeautifulSoup Python Web Scraping Using BeautifulSoup

  • django Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

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

  • pipenv Pipenv Cheat Sheet

  • pyGame Introduction to PyGame.

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

  • pysnooper Never use print for debugging again

  • Useful Python modules A collections of useful Python modules, in a little to no order whatsoever…

Practice Problems with Solutions

Python Cheat Sheets

Regex

  • Awesome Regex A curated collection of awesome Regex libraries, tools, frameworks and software.

  • Regex Pal A regular expression tester.

Sample Code

Solutions

Stydy Guides

Style Guides

Testing

Tutorials

Youtube

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.

  • ImageFu A good tool to create button images.

  • Geeks for Geeks Great resource website.

  • Edabit Great place to get better habilities with python.

  • Python_experts Have a problem you can't solve? Get help from a Python expert.

  • Explore Python Discover a curated list of popular & new libraries, top authors, tranding kits, discussions, tutorials & learning resources.