Here is a list of links

Tutorials:

Linux shell in 5 minutes http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/100
Python in 5 minutes http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/
HTML tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/html/
JSON tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/json/default.asp
networkX tutorial http://networkx.lanl.gov/networkx_tutorial.pdf
graphviv neato tutorial http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/neatoguide.pdf

If you want to crawl blogger.com here are tips to search for specific things like interests, topics…

http://www.bloggersentral.com/2010/03/finding-blogs-to-read-on-blogger.html

iPython related links:

iPython download http://ipython.org/
Pandas data library http://pandas.pydata.org/
Python installation with tons of libraries https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/
If you want to display iPython notebooks online http://nbviewer.ipython.org/
Running iPython notebooks online https://cloud.sagemath.com/
Another option to run notebooks online https://wakari.io/

virtual machine related links

ICER virtual computer lab https://vcl.icer.msu.edu/
VirtualBox software https://www.virtualbox.org/

Datasets:

Stanford collection of datasets http://snap.stanford.edu/data/

Example Projects:

Stanford class http://cs109.org/homework/homework.php
Kongregate http://alproductions.us/blog/2013/11/26/the-end-of-flash-gaming/
Stereotypes and gender bias http://alproductions.us/blog/2013/11/14/gender-bias-and-stereotypes/

Additional Software:

gephi graph layout software: https://gephi.org/