Want to learn Python? Here's an excellent 7 week course.

The course started on the 20th, but it doesn't take too long to complete a unit and so you can easily get all this weeks work done in time.

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101

I've done the entire first unit myself, and would really recommend it for newbies to python or programming in general! It's fairly easy and it keeps you interested in the course by having online questionnaires, online coding , and great easy to understand videos.

You don't need to download anything! All the homework/videos/coding is done on the site!

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What does Python do? Like what uses it etc?

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Originally Posted by Zuth

What does Python do? Like what uses it etc?

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It's a programming language, it's a bit more flexibly than most.

It's intended to be very simple in terms of syntax etc.

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

It's a programming language, it's a bit more flexibly than most.

It's intended to be very simple in terms of syntax etc.

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Oh right, cheers, I might start learning once I've finished learning PHP :P

Python is an extremely flexible, lightweight and simple programming language. It's not only a great place to start learning the basics, but it's great to take further too. Huge companies like Red Hat even use it for major things like their YUM package manager in all Red Hat based distrobutions.

I'd also recommend this:http://learnpythonthehardway.org/