Norm Matloff's Quick Python Language Tutorials

Norm Matloff's Quick Python Tutorials

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

(Please mail any questions to Norm Matloff.)

Overview:

The Python programming language is similar to Perl, but is much cleaner, easier to use and more elegant. Simply stated, it is a joy to program in Python.

Contents of This Site:

Tutorials:
- my "quick and painless" tutorial on Python
- my introduction to simulation in Python and my introduction to discrete-event simulation in Python and the SimPy language

Some Python resource sites:

The Python home page. Contains downloadable Python interpreter/library, documentation, a tutorial, a package library etc.

ASPN. See in particular the Python Cookbook for examples. It sometimes is easier to learn a Python feature here than through the official Python documentation page.