Name & Direct Link:

Python for Defenders Part 1

Cost: Free or pay what you want

Python for Defenders Part 2

Cost: Free or pay what you want

Platform: The Taggart Institute

Part 1 Topics: Jupyter Notebooks, Environment Setup, Cells, Numbers, Booleans, Strings, Lists and Tuples, Dictionaries, Conditionals, Loops, Functions, Classes, Class Inheritance

Part 2 Topics: Markdown, Widgets, File Uploads, File Hash Generator, Opening Files, CSVs, JSON, Regular Expressions, IoC Extractor, Requests, APIs, Scraping, Tracker Detection

Community: There is a Taggart Institute Discord Server

Name & Direct Link: Free Introduction to Python Programming for Digital Investigators

Platform: YouTube – DFIRScience

Topics: Print and Variables, Conditional Statements, Loops, Lists, Functions, Import Libraries, Reading and Writing Files, Starting Projects, Dictionaries

Name & Direct Link: Intro to Regular Expressions

Platform: The Taggart Institute

Hands-On: Yes

Good for Beginners: Yes

Community: There is a Taggart Tech Discord server

Topics: Regex, Vim, Matching Mechanics, Character Classes, Quantifiers, Optionals and Alternation, Capture Groups, Find and Replace, Sed/Grep

Name & Direct Link: Python For Digital Forensics Books

Platform: Packt

Cost: $12.99/Month, $129.99/Year, or $179/18 Months grants access to everything on Packt. Books and Videos can also be purchased separately from $27.99.

Books:

• Python Digital Forensics Cookbook
• Learning Python for Forensics
• Mastering Python Forensics
• Python Digital Forensics

Name & Direct Link: Python Digital Forensics Tutorial

Platform: TutorialsPoint

Topics: Getting Started with Python, Artifact Report, Mobile Device Forensics, Investigating Embedded Metadata, Network Forensics, Important Artifacts in Windows, Investigation of Log Based Artifacts

Book Title: PowerShell and Python Together Targeting Digital Investigations

Author: Chet Hosmer

Publisher: Apress

Where to Buy (link):

Apress/Springer Books (Print & eBook)

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Topics: PowerShell for Investigators, Navigating PowerShell ISE, PowerShell CmdLets, PowerShell Pipelining, PowerShell Scripting Targeting Investigation, EventProcessor PowerShell Script, Remote Access, USB Device Usage Discovery, Python and Live Acquisition, Directing PowerShell with Python, Gathering and Analyzing Remote Evidence, Extracting Names from Text Documents, Extracting EXIF Data from Photographs

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Name & Direct Link: ASCII Table

Platform: SS64

Community: There is an SS64 Discussion Forum

Name & Direct Link: A-Z Index of Windows VBScript Commands

Platform: SS64

Community: There is an SS64 Discussion Forum

Name & Direct Link: An A-Z Index of Windows PowerShell Commands

Platform: SS64

Community: There is an SS64 Discussion Forum

Name & Direct Link: Python Cheatsheet

Topics: Python Basics, Flow Control, Functions, Exception Handling, Lists, Dictionaries and Structuring Data, Sets, itertools, Comprehensions, Manipulating Strings, String Formatting, Regular Expressions, Handling File and Directory Paths, Reading and Writing Files, JSON, YAML, Configuration Files, Debugging, Lambda Functions, Ternary Conditional Operator, args and kwargs, Context Manager, Dataclasses, Virtual Environment