General Programming Tutorial

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• there is a good Python tutorial here
• you may skim the first two sections, but work carefully through section 3, trying all the code at your IPython prompt
• you may skip section 3.1.3 on unicode strings, but pick back up again in section 3.1.4 on lists is very important as is section 3.2
• work carefully through section 4
• and section 5
• read section 6, but don't try and type in its code
• section 6 may be hard to understand now
• read it once or twice now
• come back to it later