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  65 # Aims
  66
  67 Material aimed for two (three?) audiences
  68
  69 1. Teacher CPD
  70 2. In-school resources for children
  71 3. Outreach resources, mainly Bletchley Park
  72
  73 After your suggestions on how to extend these notes to hit these audiences
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  75 ---
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  77 # Programming != Computing
  78
  79 .quote[
  80 > Computational thinking is like architectural thinking.
  81 >
  82 > Programming is like bricklaying.
  83 ]
  84
  85 This course will cover four things, in increasing order of importance.
  86
  87 1. Teach some ideas about ciphers and cryptanalysis.
  88 2. Show off some tools: IPython, git, doctest.
  89 3. Explore some different corners of Python (itertools, multiprocessing).
  90 4. Expose my thinking for how to solve these problems.
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  94 # Idiomatic Python
  95
  96 Pythonistas are keen on writing idiomatic Python.
  97
  98 It's often clearer and more efficient than writing C, Perl, or even Ruby in Python.
  99
 100 * [PEP-8](http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) is the fundamental
 101   style guide. Consider getting a linter (`pylint`?)
 102 * [Python Cookbok](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001674.do) has lots of
 103   recipies for doing things in Python
 104 * [Idiomatic Python](http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html):
 105   Good style, but dated for Python 2
 106 * [Writing Idiomatic Python](http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/10/04/writing-idiomatic-python/):
 107   Enough there to tempt me to buy [the book](http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/10/04/writing-idiomatic-python/)
 108 * [Python Guide](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/writing/style/): nice
 109   complement to the above
 110 * [Python antipatterns](http://lignos.org/py_antipatterns/): things to avoid
 111   when writing Python
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