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1.18 Internet and World Wide Web Resources
www.python.org
This site is the first place to look for information about Python. The Python home page provides upto-date
news, a FAQ, and a collection of links to Python resources on the Internet including Python
software, tutorials, user groups and demos.
www.zope.com
www.zope.org
Zope is an extensible, open-source Web application server written in Python. It was created by Digital
Creations—the company where the Python development team resides.
www.activestate.com
ActiveState creates open-source tools for programmers. The company provides a Python distribution
called ActivePython and Komodo, an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for
many languages, including Python, XML, Tcl and PHP. ActiveState supplies Python tools for Windows
and a collection of Python programs called the Python Cookbook.
homepage.ntlworld.com/tibsnjoan/python.html
This page contains many links to people and groups that develop and use Python.
www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/
Dr. Dobb’s Journal, a programming publication, maintains a list of Python links at this site.
SUMMARY
[Note: Because this Section 1.17 is primarily a summary of the rest of the book, we do not provide
summary bullets for that section.]
Software controls computers (often referred to as hardware).
A computer is a device capable of performing computations and making logical decisions at
speeds millions, even billions, of times faster than human beings can.
Computers process data under the control of sets of instructions called computer programs. These
computer programs guide the computer through orderly sets of actions specified by people called
computer programmers.
The various devices that comprise a computer system (such as the keyboard, screen, disks, memory
and processing units) are referred to as hardware.
The computer programs that run on a computer are referred to as software.