Open Water Foundation Learn Python Documentation

Introduction

This documentation provides an overview of important Python concepts, with best practices and working examples. The documentation has been created by the Open Water Foundation to facilitate our work and is being made available in the hopes taht it also helps others.

If you are reading this documentation, you have likely already decided that Python is the language that you want to use for programming. It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of programming and the Python language. There are other sources of information about Python. This documentation focuses on practical issues that, if handled well, will minimize frustration and increase the efficiency of your software development.

This documentation is a work in progress and will contain notes for inserts for awhile until time can be devoted to filling in blanks.

Documentation Organization

The documentation is organized in the order of basic concepts and steps needed to build a Python program. As time allows, additional sections will be added for more advanced topics such as use of useful Python API libraries for water resources.