Programming Resources

General

• Getting started (Creative Coding for Beginners - Full Course! by Adam Shiffman) https://thecodingtrain.com/guides/getting-started
• Data science resources

It is indispensable to use a good text editor with essential functionalities such as text coloring and parenthesis highlighting like notepad++ on Windows, gedit or Emacs (for Windows, Mac and Linux).

Python

• Resources and tutorials for the transport data management course CIV8760 (mostly in French) https://github.com/nsaunier/CIV8760/blob/master/Python/README.md, and simple how-to to install Python
• Official Python tutorial https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html (in French and the tutor (step by step visualization of the program) https://pythontutor.com/
• Python 1-h video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqtD5dpn9C8
• Software Carpentry lessons, in particular https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/ and http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder (lessons and videos)
• Hundreds of Python exercises
• A Whirlwind Tour of Python
• LearnPython.org
• https://github.com/mpcs-51042/materials
• in French
  • liste des vidéos du cours INF1005D
  • Openclassrooms - Apprenez à programmer en Python
  • Apprendre le langage de programmation python
• Online books:
  • Think Python
  • Dive into Python 3 and Dive into Python
  • Apprendre à programmer avec Python 3 (en français)
  • Python Programming And Numerical Methods: A Guide For Engineers And Scientists https://pythonnumericalmethods.studentorg.berkeley.edu/notebooks/Index.html
  • Research Software Engineering with Python https://third-bit.com/py-rse/
• 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
• Guide pour l’analyse de données d’enquêtes avec R (in French) https://larmarange.github.io/guide-R/

Databases

• Wikibook SQL http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SQL
• Murrell P., Introduction to Data Technologies 2009 http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ItDT/
• SQL for Web Nerds http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/
• Software Carpentry: Using Databases and SQL http://swcarpentry.github.io/sql-novice-survey

Version Control

• Mercurial
• Others: Git https://glasskube.dev/guides/git/, Subversion

Other Languages

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