Learning Resources for Digital Services Staff

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
  • HTML5 test
  • haz.io

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)