Learning Resources for Digital Services Staff
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
Contents
Web Resources for Scripting Languages
- PLEAC Project - PERL Cookbook example programs recreated in several other languages, like Python and Ruby.
- Ruby PickAxe - Hyperlinked cross referencing version of "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic
Programmer's Guide"
- Other Resources
- Various W3 Schools
- (JavaScript) CodeAcademy
- http://files.swaroopch.com/python/byte_of_python.pdf
- http://www.math.harvard.edu/computing/perl/oneliners.txt
- http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting
- http://hyperpolyglot.org/embeddable
- http://johnbokma.com/perl/perl-quick-reference-card.pdf
- http://erudil.com/pdf/preqr.pdf
- http://www.worldtimzone.com/res/vi.html
- https://sites.google.com/site/photonpunk/file-cabinet
- http://www.codecademy.com/learn
- https://www.udacity.com/
Visualization Resources
- D3 (Data Driven Documents): -- an on online version of an O’Reilly book (The first is an online version of an O’Reilly book (Interactive Data Visualization) by Scott Murray: Interactive Data Visualization
- D3: a list of online D3 Tutorials
- Various tools
- Bamboo project tools
HTML5
- Jason's presentation(slides from his Digital Humanities Center presentation, created in HTML5)
- HTML5 Rocks
- Compatibility
UA LIB Subscription Database Resources
These resources need to be arrived at via the universities web portal to be granted access.
- www.lib.ua.edu/databases - Search for links to training and research resources
- Safari Books Online - type this into the database search field to get access to a large selection of technical training books
Other Training and Reference Resources
- Lynda - Online training resources, Access credentials available for OLT staff via Lindley Shedd (lcshedd at ua dot edu)
