Learning resources

This page lists some places to learn enough of programming to use dolo efficiently.

Interactive tutorials

• code academy : excellent python tutorial
• learnpython.org : easy step by step tutorial
• pythontutor : interactive code evaluation (mainly to understand pass by reference semantics)

Programing in general:

• software carpentry: targets researchers who program all the time without the basics. There are python and git tutorials.

Books:

• diveintopython: free historical book
• "A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python" : basics of python with a focus on scientific libraries

Computational economics

• Jon Stachurski has excellent teaching material online : http://johnstachurski.net/personal/index.html . It covers a lot of programming concepts.
• Miranda & Fackler book : some excellent chapters, mostly those explaining numerical concepts (interpolation, solution).

To install dolo you need to download

• anaconda python distribution
• github for windows (or and git client)
• a text editor: notepadd++ for instance