Python

>>55169295
learn python the hard way is my go-to python tutorial. I'm not sure it can be beat.

If you need a friend, hop on freenode and join some programming-related channels. People are friendlier than you'd think.

>>55169565
>>55169295

here's a link, btw

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

>>55169295
if you can't even do this maybe *newsflash* you shouldn't be studying computer science?

>>55169295
The python documentation has all you need and it's fairly well written.
Also a decent (but RAM nomming) IDE would be PyCharm. It has built in support for PEP8 coding style, autocomplete in most cases and other generic JetBrains goodies.

>>55169574
>>55169565

>had a typo in the lesson about dictionaries where square brackets were used instead of curly ones

Not that it's a biggie, but little things like that accompany the big mistake of "see this, now go look it up on the internet why it's done like this" attitude of teaching.

>>55169662

you should brush up on your reading skills, he's talking about lists in that first part:

> What does matter is what they do when compared to lists. You see, an list lets you do this:

>>55169582
I'm not studying CS. I just require these two CS classes for my degree. I'm in IT

>>55169589
Sounds really cool, the autocomplete worries me. Is it like when you're on your phone and it tries to finish a word for you? It's an intro course so it might not be necessary.

>>55169869
It merely offers suggestions of functions/classes contained in a module or a scope.

>>55169295
Here you go
https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#python

Don't just read, do stuff. Books are for referencing. Python is really enjoyable language

>>55169934
>Python is really enjoyable language
+1. Fucking love the grammar with list comprehension and javascript-like decorators combined with functional programming.