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.