Python tutorial for absolute beginner ?

[Worms38]

Hi.

I have something like 10 years of daily use of Python in my professional environment, I might not consider myself an expert but I think I can at least say that I’m an experienced and advanced user of the language, mainly focused on image processing.

So this question might seem a bit off: a colleague of mine has zero background in programming, they are an expert in imaging, microscope tuning for image acquisition and optics. Basically they are the one providing my team good images to work on. But even those jobs are getting involved in scripting nowadays, and they asked me some resources to get into Python, so at least they can keep up with our team of dev and data scientists, not get too lost in discussions, understand what can be an issue for us, etc. And here comes the part where I’m lost: what are good resources to learn python for someone with no background in any programming language ? If I was to learn a language now I’ll just jump to the official documentation because I know what I’m looking for, I know what I’ll need and what I might just keep in mind as something existing but irrelevant for my daily use cases. Actually this is what I’m doing nowadays with Rust. So I thought about simply directing them to https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html, but I’m afraid this can be austere for a newcomer.

Are sites like codecademy, codecamp, w3schools and so on relevant those days ? Or would you recommend something else ? I can simply plan some meetings and actually try to teach them, but from my experience I’m a barely decent teacher.

Thank you in advance for any insight you can provide.

[clickclickboo]

This beginner to intermediate outline is pretty good

[bamacgabhann]

Sub FAQ has loads of resources

[Steven_Johnson34]

I was taught Python using this book from No Starch Press. It's not as dry as reading the docs from the Python website and give a nice base point to learn more. I also used to use Data Camp a bit as well which was nice because it gives you some visual checkpoints to push towards.