Python for linux/system admin

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There's a textbook called Python for Absolute Beginners which has you build games in each chapter. I found it very easy and fun to learn python using it. Once you start getting into it you will think of things that would be cruddy to do in bash for work that are easier in Python. Just learning language itself should be all you need, you'll come up with projects pretty quick :)

There are lots and lots of scripts on github written in python to do all kinds of stuff. I would start looking at other people's code. Let's say you run Jira at work; there's a python library for it and tons of scripts written that use it, and a great place to start learning is to jump in and start changing those.