Links

One of the great things about Python is its large community and the many flavours it comes in. On this page we can, of course, only give you a very few links.

Links: Python

Python Homepage

This is the official homepage of Python and as such a good starting point to obtain the latest version of Python, read the official documentation or connect to the large Python community.

Jython Environment for Music (JEM)

JythonMusic is an exciting new combination of programming and music: learn Python programming by composing music on your PC. The programming environment JEM is a collaboration with TigerJython, enhanced with sophisticated music libraries which allow you to quickly produce amazing results.

Online Python Tutor

Online Python Tutor lets you write a Python script and then execute it step by step, even with the possibility to go back a step. Moreover, Online Python Tutor provides sophisticated visualizations of your program's state and data.

Skulpt

Would you like to try out some Python without lenghty installations? Then Skulpt might be the thing for you. It is a basic interpreter that runs completely inside you browser. Just enter a few lines of Python and have them been executed to get a feeling for this exciting programming language.

VPython

VPython provides a sophisticated graphics library, mostly for 3D graphics and graphs of mathematical functions. It was developped with physical simulations in mind and is easy to learn and use but lacks a nice development environment.

PyCharm

PyCharm is a state of the art development environment for professional work with Python. The community edition comes free and there is a specific educational edition. If you want to delve into more serious Python development this might be a tool for you.

Jython Native Interface

JyNI's goal is to give Jython access to all the extensions and additional libraries as found in standard Python. These include foremost «NumPy» and its many descendant but also «tkinter». It is still work in progress but it might be worth keeping an eye on this.