Python
Installing and using python
If you are a Linux or OS-X user, python is already installed on your machine.
And yes, you can use Eclipse or other python-specific IDEs, but that is not very pythonic. Emacs or vi are all you need.
Learning python
The executive summary
- What is python. By Guido van Rossum (the guy who started it all).
Free python tutorials/e-books
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
- The official python tutorial
- Dive Into Python
Packages
- numpy: scientific computing in python; includes powerful array objects and linear algebra functions.
- matplotlib: plotting
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