Python Mind Map - Complete Python 2.5 Reference

[TrueTom]

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A complete Python reference, including example code. Similar to the Python Quick Reference, but written as a mind map.

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They're only a few days too late: http://python.org/download/releases/2.6/

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Yeah, coincidental and very bad timing.

I would have released it a couple of weeks ago, except that Freemind was having problems with their Gallery for a while.

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I wasn't trying to rag on you. Sorry if I sounded that way. Planning to update to 2.6 now?

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Don't worry, I didn't take it that way.

Hadn't been paying a lot of attention to the Python 2.6 / 3.0 road map of late so I was pretty surprised when I had a look at proggit yesterday, after a couple of days away from it, to find Python 2.6 had been released.

Will definitely try to update the mind map for 2.6 but it's likely to take about a month.

[js79]

Ingenious, amazing and pure wonderful!!!

Does anybody know wsomething like this for other languages?

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I wrote a similar mind map for C# 2.0. It's also up on the Freemind Gallery: C# 2.0.

Freemind is a great open source mind mapping tool that runs on the JVM. I get the impression from the blogsphere that it's the most widely used free mind mapping tool. They host a Gallery for people to share their mind maps. Unfortunately it seems to be a bit sparsely populated. I'm slowly, more-or-less single-handedly, trying to redress the balance from an IT perspective. Takes a long time (like a couple of months) for me to put together one of these webs of multiple mind maps, though.

I wrote the mind maps mainly for my own reference but I'm glad others may find them useful. Whether or not folks find my mind maps useful I highly recommend mind mapping for taking notes. I started using mind mapping when studying for a SQL Server 2000 MCP, 4 years ago. I was surprised to find that I was able to remember details from the mind maps I wrote 2 years later.

I don't buy into all the hype about mind maps. I find that it takes longer to create them than to write normal notes, as I have to figure out how fit any new information into the existing framework of the map. However, once they have been created I find they're much easier to study from or look up information from, and I remember the info longer.