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		RockyMcNuts on May 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HN: I want to trade my finance knowledge for pytho... Been going through a similar process, here are some links highly recommended - MIT OCW Python course http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... Learning Python, Fourth Edition, By: Mark Lutz http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/python/9780... Official docs and tutorial http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html A couple of others http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/stories/00020.html http://diveintopython.org/ Django - official docs and tutorial http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/ Have started some work with this Django book but jury is still out http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/web-development/django/...

ivolo on May 15, 2011 [–]

I am an MIT student, and would not recommend 6.00 OCW. I've tutored a few people taking 6.00 and found their explanations over complicated and problems filtered with unnecessary details. Reading a book would be preferable.

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