Here are a few links to online Python tutorials to help get you started. I haven't used these - I learned from a book ("How to Think Like a Computer Scientist"). If you try them, let me know if they're any good. If you have other resources, let me know and I'll add them.

• Khan Academy: Intro to JavaScript, a programming language inside every web browser. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming

• Flow Charts - Flow Charts are graphical charts that diagram the logic used to solve a complex problem or illustrate a complex process. They are often very helpful in decomposing a complex problem into manageable, simpler sub-problems. In this class I will require you to implement a flow chart that illustrates how your program is structured and how it works. The link takes you to a good introduction on flow-charting.

• Code Structure - A diagram/discussion of how I want you to structure the code you write for your assignments.

• Doctests - A short tutorial on what a doctest is and how to use them in your code.

• Style Guide - A discussion on how to format the details of your code like remarks, whitespace, equations, etc.  This document is a smaller edited version of the "official" python coding style guide.

• Python Mini Projects - Here are a few small projects that will help you focus on discrete Python programming skills such as if-then statements, looping, tuples and arrays, and basic 2D graphics. These were the projects students worked on when I taught programming.

• Overview
• Environment
• Basic Syntax
• Variable Types
• Basic Operators
• if...else
• while Loop
• for Loop
• Loop Control
• Numbers
• Strings
• Lists
• Tuples
• Dictionaries
• Date & Time
• Functions
• Modules
• File I/O
• Exceptions