Python Tools for Visual Studio

Python Tools for Visual Studio
"PTVS 1.1"
An integrated environment for developing Python in VS2010

Supports CPython and IronPython

Python editor with advanced member and signature intellisense

Code navigation “Find all refs”, goto definition, and object browser

Local and remote debugging

Profiling with multiple views

Integrated REPL window with inline matplotlib graphics

Support for HPC clusters and MPI, including debugging & Profiling

Interactive parallel computing via integrated IPython REPL


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Google Python (2 day video) Class

Google Sites - free

Learn more about Google Sites
Google Sites makes creating and sharing a group website easy
Single-click page creation
Customizable look and feel
Dozens of pre-built templates
Settings for accessing and sharing information
And it's free!

Beyond "free" there is "Google Sites with Google Apps Premier Edition",
(a long name similar to Microsoft product naming :)

The "sites" appears to be integrated with Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, Talk
so this could be in a way similar to Microsoft Office 365 / Live,
where SharePoint services are used for group collaboration.

It is really nice that both Google and Microsoft offer integrated web solutions,
and that they start with "free"...

Probabilistic Robotics book

book: Probabilistic Robotics



Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations...


Sebastian Thrun, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Book: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
(Third edition) by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig


The leading textbook in Artificial Intelligence.
Used in over 1200 universities in over 100 countries.
The 25th most cited publication on Citeseer (and 2nd most cited publication of this century).

Peter Norvig
Director of Research @ Google