Beginner Resources
Software
Coding is much easier with a good code editor.
- Visual Studio Code - very popular editor, lots of helpful extensions, completely free
- Atom - another popular editor
- PyCharm - an excellent Python IDE
- Sublime Text - a more lightweight easy to use editor
Binary - Everything is 1s and 0s?
- Crash Course Computer Science #4 - quick video explaining binary representation
- Why Do Computers Use 1s and 0s? Binary and Transistors Explained. - curious why everyone says a computer breaks everything down to 1s and 0s? This video gives a good explaination of the whole logic.
Practice Problems
- LeetCode - a very popular code challenge site with good education materials and common, technical interview questions.
- Codewars - improve your skills by training on real code challenges
- Coding Bat - problems you can solve within an online interpreter
- Python Challenge - a series of puzzles you can try to test your Python abilities
- Project Euler - additional programming challenges you can try once your Python knowledge becomes stronger; problems are sorted by increasing difficulty