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"Course notes This course is part of the Scientific Computing series, and as such many of the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific computing. The course notes (in various forms) are available here. The files used during the course are available here. This course is aimed at those who already know how to program in another high level programming language (such as C/C++, Fortran, Java, Perl or Visual Basic) and who now wish to learn Python. (Those with little or no prior programming experience should try the "Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners" course instead.) The aim of this course is to provide sufficient familiarity with Python that attendees can attend any of our more advanced Python courses and easily follow any of the widely available Python tutorials on the more complex aspects of the language."

This is the first in a series of online tutorial lessons designed to teach you how to program using the Python scripting language. There is something for just about everyone here. Beginners start at the beginning, and experienced programmers jump in further on. You simply need to enter the series of lessons at the point that best fits your prior programming knowledge.

Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python's elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.

What is this? This is a free service for academics and anyone else who writes papers with citations and a bibliography but doesn't use fancy bibliographic software. What does it do? You upload your paper, and the program scans if for citations. Then it compares what it finds to the paper's references section and reports any inconsistencies: citations that don't match an entry in the references section, and references that don't match any citation in the paper. You might think it won't find any, but you'd be surprised. Oh, it also reports the number of times you cite each source, which you may find interesting.

Want to create a screenshot suitable for saving or printing? Then just hit a key on your keyboard. Oh yeah, you'll have to download this program first. There are several hotkey combos to choose from (PrintScreen is the default). Once you've chosen your favorite combo, head to the Destination tab and have the screen print out instantly, copy the capture to the clipboard, save it to a specific folder, or even send it through e-mail. You can perform full screen captures, or only capture a specific window.

Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines. Python is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license that makes it free to use, even for commercial products.

"You could also use the csv module import csv myfileobj = open("myfiletab.txt","read") csv_read = csv.reader(myfileobj,dialect=csv.excel_tab) myval1 = [] myval2 = [] myval3 = [] for line in csv_read: # filter header and stuff using some criterion if len(line) = 3: myval1.append(line[0]) myval2.append(line[1]) myval3.append(line[2])"

Python 3 - Reading CSV files

"The ANSI set of 217 characters, also known as Windows-1252, was the standard for the core fonts supplied with US versions of Microsoft Windows up to and including Windows 95 and Windows NT 4. During the lifetime of those two products, Microsoft added the euro currency symbol bringing the number of characters to 218, and introduced a new core set of Pan-European fonts containing the WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) character set, with 652 characters."

"Microsoft Windows Codepage 1252 (ANSI)"

"Every now and again, I've wished that I had an ASCII chart handy, so I made one and stuck it on this page so that I could find it in a hurry. One thing led to another, and folks started asking me questions about ASCII and other character representations, so I've tried to update this page a bit to answer some of the most common questions. Also, I've added additional info,such as IBM PC Keyboard Scan Codes, and a list of other references."

"Carriage Returns in a Cell - what character? This is a discussion on Carriage Returns in a Cell - what character? within the Excel Questions forums, part of the Question Forums category; Hi there I was looking for a way to paste data from Word into Excel, and found several posts on ..."

"Introduction: 1. What is Acrobat JavaScript? 2. What can you do with Acrobat JavaScript? 3. Where can I read more about Acrobat JavaScript? 4. How to create a batch sequence with JavaScript code? 5. Sample Acrobat JavaScripts: Introduction"

Getting Started with Rails This guide covers getting up and running with Ruby on Rails. After reading it, you should be familiar with: Installing Rails, creating a new Rails application, and connecting your application to a database The general layout of a Rails application The basic principles of MVC (Model, View Controller) and RESTful design How to quickly generate the starting pieces of a Rails application