in many places there are complications that are important in the beginningbecause there is common error caused by slight misuse of the current topic if such common error is likely to make no sense and slow you downmore information is given to allow you to head off or easily react to such an error although this approach is an effective way to introduce materialit is not so good for reference referencing is addressed in several waysdetailed table of contents extensive index in the web page version flexible search engine built into the html version (does not work on an html version that you download to your computercross references to sections that elaborate on an introductory section hyperlinks allow you to jump between the referenced parts in the html version or the pdf version viewed on computer the pdf version also gives page references concise summariesgrouping logically related itemseven if that does not match the order of introduction using the tutorial text and video the hands-on python tutorial was originally document to readwith both the html version and pdf version even if you do not print itsome people use the pdf version onlinepreferring its formatting to the formatting in the html version some people learn better visually and verbally from the very beginning the tutorial has videos for many sections also mentioned for the convenience of my comp class are videos beyondpythonfor the part of the class after python the videos are copied into two placesonedrive (ak yqmbq? = there are five zip files of videos that you can download and unzipplus individual mp ' for the python tutorial appendix sections there is one zip file for each - of the python tutorial and one zip file (beyondpython zipfor the remainder of my comp class after the python downloads of the parts do not need any id unzip (expandany zip file before using google driveyou need google drive/docs login id if you are not already logged into google drive/docsyou will need to do it when you click on the link if you have that idthen the advantage of google drive is that you can select exactly what parts to view or download this may not work with internet explorerbut it does work with firefoxsafari or chrome browser to get the most out of the tutoriali strongly suggest the following approach for each partwatch video if you like they are clearly labeled by numerical section stop the video where ask you to think the videos hit the high points and take advantage of being able to point at specific places on the screen they are not as recent as the current textso they may look bit different than the tutorial in web page some details may only appear in the written text stop the video frequently to test things for yourselfif new function is introduceddo not only watch the videobut try it out for yourselfincluding with data not in the video in some places the written version mentions more examples to try context