Usefull links, schools, tutorials, books, ..

Schools:
- LEAPS (The Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students), Leiden, Netherlands, https://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/summerstudents/
- SASP (Space Astronomy Summer Program), Baltimore, USA, http://www.stsci.edu/institute/smo/students. Applications start early.
- VOSS (Vatican Observatory Summer School), near Rome, Italy. Next one is 2018, Applications usually start at least 6 months before. http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/content/specolavaticana/en/summer-schools--voss-/voss2016.html
- KAS (Kathmandu Astrophysics School), Kathmandu, Nepal, http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~mtrenti/kas16.html

Books:
"An introduction into Modern Astrophysics" - Carroll, Osli
"Galactice Dynamics" - Binney, Tremaine
"The million body problem" - Heggie, Hut

Python Tutorials:

"Python" tutorials:
- The official language tutorial: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/ (not necessarily good for never-before-programmed folks, but good if some programming background)
http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/ (similar but somewhat less "docs-y" than the official tutorial)
- Codeacademy: https://www.codecademy.com/courses/introduction-to-python-6WeG3/0/1?curriculum_id=4f89dab3d788890003000096 (apparently this is going to be replaced by a new/better version within the next few months, but seems to be working right now...)
- Codeschool: https://www.codeschool.com/learn/python (I've heard god things a bout this one and have been happy with some of their other tutorials... But I think the Python one costs money?)
- The Python wiki has a whole long list of tutorials for "new to programming" people: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers

"Scientific Python" tutorials:
- http://www.scipy-lectures.org/ (pretty exhaustive, but not astro-specific)
- http://tutorials.astropy.org (Doesn't provide basics like "how to use numpy", but astro-specific)
- https://python4astronomers.github.io/ (A little bit dated, but currently the best tool to mix both "how to learn python" and "astro" in the same tutorial)

Other links:
- Astronomy Meetings: http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/meetings/
- Astronomy Jobs: http://jobregister.aas.org/