Hi, For those starters on python programming, I strongly recommend Hanns Petter Langtangen's book "A primer on scientific programming with python". It specifically targets the scientific programming, which we care about the most. The only thing I am not sure is that this book was written using python 2.6. A transition to 3.2 maybe a pain in future.
Nian Huang On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Aksyuk, Anastasia (NIH/NIAMS) [F] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Considering that many biologists come to the field with no background in > programming (like me) and want to learn a scripting language, I thought > that many young members of the community might find this useful. > > There's an ongoing FREE online course "An Introduction to Interactive > Programming in Python" (no computer background needed), presented by the > department of computer science from Rice University. It just started and as > far as the first week goes, it is very well presented and entertaining. > https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython > > There's plenty of other useful courses there as well. > https://www.coursera.org > > Anastasia > > Anastasia A Aksyuk > IRTA fellow > Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIAMS > Bldg 50, Room 1511, > 50 South Drive MSC 8025 > N.I.H., > Bethesda, MD 20892-8025 > email: [email protected] > phone: 301-451-8247 >
