The following book is required reading for all students. The book should be easy to read for everyone!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565922824/104-8450124-1020740?v=glance

Some pages from the following book will be required reading (it is not necessary to actually buy the book - copies of the relevant pages will be available for the students):

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/

The excellent book (!) about Python and XML  ( pages -> 110) will be required reading (copies will be available):

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonxml/index.html

All the documentation available for each lecuture is also required reading.

In addition there will be a some articles available on the net that is either necessary reading or recommended.

• The next wave of format - Art Kleiner http://www.well.com/user/art/format.html
• LaTeX – A document preparation system http://www.latex-project.org/
• The Plone Book - http://www.plone.org/documentation/book
• Python stuff - http://www.diveintopython.org/
• CMS stuff - http://metatorial.com/Papers/papers.asp
• Python Cookbook - http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/