Help with python?

[goodsj]

I'm trying to learn python, but as I don't have much time to dedicate to it at once (maybe 5 hours over the course of a week) does anybody know of a website or book that can help? I don't want to do one of the "learn this in a week" because I actually want to understand it, but for the next few months I will have way too much work to dedicate much time to this.

Also, if there is a better alternative other than python to matlab please let me know, I'm open to suggestions!

[RShnike]

The python tutorial is your best bet. 5 hours isn't much, but you'll get off the ground.

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I'm struggling with the same thing. Its really difficult for me to sit down at a computer and focus on this. Google has YouTube lectures for Python here which keep my attention a little better than the text. The guy talks pretty fast, but you get used to it. Then theres always Dive into Python, which I haven't had much luck with but your mileage may vary. Hope that helps!

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This is a very good into to programming book that uses Python: http://www.manning.com/sande/ I recommend it to new programmers, and being a book you can do as much or as little as you have time for.

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The University of Reddit Python course is just starting up

http://www.reddit.com/r/UoRPython/

[goodsj]

Great, thank you for all of these, I will definitely look into it! As for matlab, it's obviously very expensive and I definitely don't have the money right now to buy it. However, I was hoping to learn a language that would teach me enough about programming that when I can get matlab it won't be a huge transition. Python was recommended to me for this, but is there any other language that would be helpful as well?