I took Udacity's cs101 class as a (lazy) way to get introduced to python. While I felt like it was a very well done introduction to computer science, it wasn't a very effective way to learn a language as it made a deliberate effort to decouple python and cs (and rightfully so). I would suspect that this is also true of the other MOOCs listed here.
Python as a language is great. Its the GUI frameworks that always stop my advances into Python...there are about half a dozen of them and they come in various flavours of broke, ugly, incompatible, difficult or abandoned.
As someone who's relatively comfortable with VS ('08-'12) and who has licenses, I'm curious to know what the limitations (if any) are to using VS for development with Python.
Do you (or does anyone) know of any quick-start guides or tutorials to working with Python (or any other non-.NET languages) in Visual Studio?
All the code on the internet is C#, so I don't really both with python on VS. I guess its possible, but for learning it strikes me as a bad starting point.
The page list some other domain as official python tutorial:
http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html That's not the official python tutorial(it's giving me an access error - no ideas what's hosted there).
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http://www.diveintopython.net/toc/index.html
http://getpython3.com/diveintopython3/
Combined with PEP8, it's a fantastic stylistic resource.
So I end up downloading VS C# Express...
Do you (or does anyone) know of any quick-start guides or tutorials to working with Python (or any other non-.NET languages) in Visual Studio?
The page list some other domain as official python tutorial: http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html That's not the official python tutorial(it's giving me an access error - no ideas what's hosted there).