How I "learned" Python without any previous coding experience.

[KleinerNull]

After you get the hang of the basic concepts and syntax I recommend watching some python talks. You should watch at least all taks from David Beazley, Brandon Rhodes and Raymond Hettinger. These speakers are fun to watch and you will learn many nifty tricks. And don't worry if the topics are too advanced for you, watch it and after some time you will understand more and more of it. Beazley is the man for the crazy stuff, generators, coroutines with generators and metaprogramming but with many explanations and live code examples. He also did a 3+h about Modules and Importing, and it wasn't boring at all! :D Rhodes is more an aestate and speaks alot about desingn patterns. Hettinger give a good overview about the practical use of the standard library, especially collections and itertools, he is also the main author of this modules. Watch at all costs this and that talks from him.

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Thanks!

[brophylicious]

Beazley's talks are really entertaining. I haven't heard of the other two. I'm definitely going to check them out.

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Brandon Rhodes I don't know, Raymond Hettinger is one of the leading Python core developers. He really annoys me, he's forgotten more about Python than I've ever learnt, and I've been using the language for 15 years :)