These look really useful when I've got more time on my hands, I'm going to read through them. 

Cheers

Fantastic, keep the informative links coming for this brave upcoming world of Python 3.x that Elemental will use!

Well, depending how intense any of us want to get there's always AI: A Modern Approach:

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

It's a huge overview, I only read the introduction and sections related to language processing 2 years ago,
but there is a good reason to get through it - a decent amount of example code in Python:

http://code.google.com/p/aima-python/

(There's also Java (http://code.google.com/p/aima-java/) and Lisp (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/lisp/doc/overview.html))

As time permits I am excited to really get into the AI of Elemental. I would buy a book from Brad on strategic AI,
hell I've bought $100 useless textbooks so I wouldn't mind buying one that teaches me something.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html

Haven't had time to look at most of it but here are subjects covered:

• Shortest Paths
• AI
• Objects
• Scripting
• Tiles
• Hexagons
• Adventure
• Economics

With this site, you have to be carefull, the 'book' that is supplied on this site, uses Python 2.x while Elemental (As far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong...) is using Python 3.1. This might not sound as a problem, but one of the first programs supplied in the book (the typical 'Hello World') didn't work, I had to make changes on every line to get it working in Python 3.1

Well, I've only tried that one example for now, and because of the results, I just thought to put a warning out. I didn't expect the language to have changed completly between those two versions (afterall, it's still the same language...) but it would suck pretty bad if you learned 2.6 and while modding you learned that everything you tried would generate errors...

So, better safe than sorry I guess

This page has some good OO slides, check out the Dec 3rd OO summary. It's for Java but the concepts should be understood regardless I hope.

The guy I brought up before has a set of slides on the basics of data structures. Again, code examples in Java but here the majority of slides deal with concepts and not code.

There's actually a tool that automatically converts Python 2.x code to Python 3.x code:

http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html

It works fairly well (things that I've translated with it have needed only minor tweaks afterwards to get them fully working again)

On a side note, noticed that 'code blocks' don't include support for either Java or Python. Since Elemental's AI dev is going to be in Python, it would probably make sense to add Python support to code blocks too.

Just a head's up, DiveintoPython3 has been finished and is available online for free or purchase.  Just the old www.diveintopython3.org and away ye go.

This is kinda random, and outta left field as I've been very much out of the loop here lately  (come to me, Elemental capable PC in a month or so that I may start to help in beta land at last), but in regards to Python:

Will the recently announced moratorium and aim at a "grand catchup" in terms of the whole lot of it factor into Elemental down the line going BACK to the notion of aiming for Python 3.x versus what I last recall in a journal post a bit back of scaling back to 2.x due to maturity issues of a sort?  I can't speak yet with technical parlance, but here's the link to what I mean:

http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/

That was pretty well my wondering, as the aim on the moratorium was to get everything caught up on the same page with a buffer of time (couple years they cite) and focus that was still only functioning proper back on version 2.5 and 2.6 and so on.

But even then, the trick may well be exactly when would the specific things Frogboy is eyeing would come into their own under 3.x and become something more than what they currently are under the old Python.