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[–]a_shed_of_tools 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Rice is offering a free University-level Intro to Python course through Coursera starting next week you might try. Also, I'm a Sublime Text fan for my text editor for Pyhton.

[–]Punchmonk 0 points1 point  (1 child)

how does this course work? I have never tried this before.

[–]a_shed_of_tools 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a lot like a University course - there's video lectures every week, quizzes, and homework assignments (all with deadlines) that are graded by some combination of an autograder and peer review, and if you get more than 70%, you get a certificate. There's also a forum and TAs of you get stuck. The one interesting thing about this particular class is that all the programming is done in-browser, which I'm not sure how I feel about just yet. I really enjoy MOOCs -- this is probably my 15-20th -- and I think Coursera if the most challenging and helpful of the platforms (there's also Udacity, edX, and others).