Programming Resources

Tutorials

General

• Computer Programming for the Total Beginner (video lessons) by Adam Shiffman https://vimeo.com/channels/introcompmedia

Python

• Resources and tutorials for the transport data management course CIV8760 (mostly in French) https://github.com/nsaunier/CIV8760/blob/master/Python/README.md
• Official Python tutorial https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
  • in particular the tutor allowing the visualization of programmation (step by step going through the program) Python Tutor
• A Whirlwind Tour of Python
• Hundreds of Python exercises
• Software Carpentry lessons, in particular https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/ and http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder (lessons and videos)
• Data carpentry
• Gallery of Jupyter Notebooks on programming, data science, etc.
• Online books:
  • Think Python
  • Dive into Python 3 and Dive into Python
  • Apprendre à programmer avec Python 3 (en français)
• Older tutorials http://n.saunier.free.fr/saunier/teaching/workshop/12-09-script-ta-ville.html, Séminaire appliqué sur les outils informatiques de traitement de données (2011)

R

• Introduction to R programming (in French), Vincent Goulet https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Goulet_introduction_programmation_R.pdf
• Workshop on R software https://github.com/sahirbhatnagar/atelier-R-GERAD

Databases

• Using Databases and SQL http://swcarpentry.github.io/sql-novice-survey

Version Control

• Mercurial
• Others: Git, Subversion

Other Languages

• p5js: porting of processing in javascript (video lessons by Adam Shiffman https://vimeo.com/channels/learningp5js)
• Octave: Matlab clone
• C/C++: GCC compiler, cygwing or MinGW environnements (Windows)