I am a beginner so I can relate with you, although python is my first
programming language, it sounds as if you are coming from another language.
Either way, here are some sites I'll collected that have tutorials and are free.
Alan's tutorial (alan is a very active member here)
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
How to think like a computer scientist (uses python)
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/index.html
Learn python the hard way
http://p2pu.org/webcraft/learn-python-hard-way
The official python tutorial (2.7) (all the versions are available)
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html
If you happen to be a visual / audio learner try these
Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6U-i4gXkLM
Bucky's youtube tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston#p/c/EA1FEF17E1E5C0DA/0/4Mf0h3HphEA
Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986 (uses scheme, but the
concepts are highly transferable) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
If you are planning to go into video game development, I recommend this tutorial
http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/
These are just a fraction of the info out there, I found all these links in my
journey to get better at programming, so if these links don't suit you, don't
be scared to go out there and look.
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What is it about you... that intrigues me so?
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From: amt <0101...@gmail.com>
To: tutor@python.org
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:36 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Non programmer wanting to become programmer
First of all, hello! I want to start learning programming. I'm looking into
becoming more than a hobbyist programmer. I searched a lot on Google on what
programming language should I learn first and I see a lot of good words about
Python so I decided to go for it but have some questions:
1)What book should I start with? ( I have checked Python for non programmers
but there are a lot of titles there, what should I pick first?I was thinking
about Invent your own computer games with Python.)
2)Version 2 or version 3? What should I go for as a beginner and why? ( I ask
because some books in the Python for non programmers section are for python 2,
Invent your own computer games with Python is version 3.)
3)Algorithms, memory management, data structures, when is the right time to
learn them?
Regards, amt.
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