Useful books and sites
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In addition to our course, there are countless of excellent books, tutorials and examples related to programming in Python.
Here we list some good places to look for further information.

New book: Introduction to Python for Geographic Data Analysis
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Henrikki Tenkanen, Vuokko Heikinheimo, and David Whipp (all current or past course teachers) are working on a textbook that is based on the Geo-Python and Automating GIS processes courses.
The book will be openly available online and is currently under development.
The material in the first part of the book originates from this course and has reached a point where we will be using the book for most of our Python lessons. You can access the current book draft at `<https://python-gis-book.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_.

Other books
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There are **no required textbooks** for this course. This course uses a wide range of sources for course information and the main textbooks are given below.

- Recommended textbooks and online resources:

  - Zelle, J. (2017) `Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science <https://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ppics3/index.html>`_, Third edition. Franklin, Beedle & Associates. *Copies of this book are available in the Kumpula Campus library.*
  - McKinney, W. (2022) `Python for Data Analysis: Data wrangling with Pandas, NumPy and iPython <https://wesmckinney.com/book/>`_, Third edition. O'Reilly Media, Incorporated.
  -  `Learn Python the Hard Way <https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/>`__ *Free sample of the book is available on the webpage.*


Python tutorials
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-  `Codecademy's Learn to program in Python <https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python>`__
-  `Software Carpentry's programming in Python <https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/>`__


Git + Github tutorials
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- `Online "Try-Git" tutorial (learn Git in your browser) <https://try.github.io>`__
- `Git simple guide ("no deep shit") tutorial <http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/>`__
- `Software Carpentry's Git novice tutorial <https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice>`__
- `Git official documentation <https://git-scm.com/>`__
- `Screencast series in Youtube for learning GitHub <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Q4HssKcxYsTuqUUvEHJ8XxOVOHTSmle>`__
- `Tutorial on few extra features of GitHub not (most probably) covered in this course (e.g. branch, pull-request, merge) <https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/>`__
- `A TechCrunch article about 'What is GitHub Anyway?' <https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/what-exactly-is-github-anyway/>`__
- `A list of resources for learning Git and GitHub <https://help.github.com/articles/good-resources-for-learning-git-and-github/>`__