technical-resources.md

Technical Resources & Tutorials

Python

• A nice and accessible video tutorial (there are loads and loads of introductions on YouTube, if you find one that suits you better, go for it!)
• Many more tutorials
• A treasure trove of resources: Real Python

Jupyter Notebooks & Google Colab

• Super short video introduction
• A tutorial

Git, the Terminal

• Dan Shiffman's Git & GitHub for Poets and Workflow series
• Chris Alexiuk's git good series
• NYU Git tutorial

Run things in the cloud

Note: as of mid-2023, there is such demand for GPUs that it is more difficult to rent GPUs than it used to be. Colab remains a stable option, for short jobs.

• Google Colab
• Lambda Labs
• Paperspace
• Jarvis Labs
• Vast.ai, crowdsourced GPUs
• Huggingface Spaces
• Google Cloud Compute
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Editors

• Online p5js editor (pros: out of the box, online backup; cons: no live preview, some CORS issue and little available space for models and data)
• Visual Studio Code (pros: modern and extensible code editor, huge community, extensions for many programming languages; cons: steeper learning curve, need to install extensions for each language, the recommended option)
• Brackets (pros: simple to use, "one click" live preview in the browser; cons: not ideal for programming languages other than Javascript)
• Vim (pros: super extensible, an entire customisable syntax for text processing, and it's also a cult!; cons: the steepest learning curve of all)