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Textbooks

There are no required textbooks for this course. The lecture and tutorial notes will be handed out during lectures and will be available online. We have provided online Python resources (notes and practice questions) on the NCSS Challenge website. There are copious online resources for learning Python, but if you prefer to have a textbook, then we recommend:

Learning Python, Third Edition
By Mark Lutz and David Ascher
October 2007
ISBN: 0-596-51398-4
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513986/

The second edition of this book is also suitable.

Administration

• The University ICT Resources Policy (you must read this before using university ICT resources)
• The Engineering Faculty Handbook.
• The University of Sydney WebCT site
• Faculty of Science forms and downloads (eg. Special Consideration form)
• The School of Information Technologies plagiarism policy
• The School of Information Technologies special consideration information

Technical Support

• School of IT Technical Support (accessible only from SIT labs)

Web resources

• Version Control with Subversion
• Python programming language