Intitially, I use Perl for genome base parsing and analysis work, and found it quick and less cody. But, now a dayz I don't like perl, because I think it can induce to many bad-behaviours in novel programmers.Some of the bad behaviours that I...
I prefer Perl becuse Perl Scripts are very easy for the String processing for Biological data like Genome sequences and protein sequences. In addition, there is no strict rules for writing Perl scripts like other languages. That makes the...
University of Washington's tutorial "Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics" with python
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ruzzo/courses/gs559/10wi/
http://elbo.gs.washington.edu/courses/GS_559_11_wi/
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A quickstart tutorial that allows to become familiar with the Python language. The exercises expect knowledge of basic concepts of programming. A group of 2nd year computer science students with no previous Python knowledge required 60'-90' to...
Python Educational Material
Beginners: Non-programmer’s tutorial for Python by Josh Cogliati (PDF)
Beginners: Python & programming trainig with Rosalind
Beginners: Learn programming with Python...
Books for learning python:
Learn To Program http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
Python Programming for the absolute beginner http://premierpressbooks.com/ptr_detail.cfm?isbn=1%2D59863%2D112%2D8
Python Programming: An...
I prefer Perl because it has strong BioPerl, my favourate PDL ("Perl Data Language"), which gives standard Perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of...
Which version you ought to use is mostly dependent on what you want to get done.
If you can do exactly what you want with Python 3.x, great! There's a few downsides, such as comparatively limited library support and the fact that most current...