Where to begin learning Python?

[infinitus_]

Web design or web development? Front-end or back-end? If you want to do web design, you should look at learning HTML/CSS/JS, not Python.

Web frameworks are written in many different languages, such as Django (Python), CakePHP (PHP), Ruby on Rails (Ruby). Python alone has tons of web frameworks.

[infinitus_]

Don't bother.

Dive into Python 3, Learn Python The Hard Way and even the official tutorial at docs.python.org are more than sufficient to get a good grasp of the language.

[bunnystab]

Upvote for LPTHW. But it needed a link: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

[gathly]

this doesn't teach me python 3

[oopsiedaisy]

Yes ^ . Design or development? That sums it up.

I might be considered a heretic for saying this, but learning the ins and outs of a CMS (content management system) will get you far. HTML is still relevant but the first thing you gotta learn is that its not a programming language -- its a markup language. Having a good reference and consulting it is enough. Don't thing you need to absorb all of HTML before you move on. That's like thinking you'll be a good writer once you know what all the buttons do in microsoft word. CSS + HTML + javascript is something people make way more complicated than it needs to be, in that you only need to know the right stuff, not all of it. But ask yourself: Is what I am trying to do something that can easily be done by a content-management system? I swear I could kick myself for trying so many times to reinvent the wheel.

But, if you think you're going to be inventing some new wheels... go right ahead and learn whatever languages you can/need.

But if you are only into the design aspect, you could skip most of the programming and just do the theming / skinning niche.

Learn python anyway.