You have a good starting set of questions. Every time you have a question—dive in and find an answer. E.g. "what is the role of hashing in python?" Googling fi

You have a good starting set of questions. Every time you have a question—dive in and find an answer. E.g. "what is the role of hashing in python?" Googling finds some unrelated stuff, but then on first page there's http://www.asmeurer.com/blog/posts/what-happens-when-you-mess-with-hashing-in-python/ http://www.asmeurer.com/blog/posts/what-happens-when-you-mes... which at first very cursory skim seems informative. Repeat for each question.