I'm Al Sweigart, author of several free programming books. My latest book is on recursion and recursive algorithms. AMA!

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  • MicroPython

    MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

    Embedded programming (though Micropython addresses this)

  • Godot

    Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

    Gaming (though if you're making 2D indie games, Pygame is great. And Godot has GDScript, which is based on Python syntax)

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • scrollart

    A collection of "scroll art" computer animation programs in several languages, suitable for teaching/learning to code.

    A book that teaches you how to program using ASCII art animations that I call scroll art.

  • NLTK

    NLTK Source

    Check out the NLTK library, if you need some guidance or ideas what you can do with it check out Jurafsky's excellent book which is also free.

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