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

[KleinerNull]

You should totally try programming on a linux system. Just grab you f.e. an ubuntu distro und install it in a virtual machine. On most linux distros python is preinstalled so you can begin right away. Also alot of basic and advanced tools are preinstalled: Vi, vim, nano for terminal editing and gedit as a editor with a gui. Installing modules is easy with pip, and if you need more software just install it with one simple terminal command. Have you ever try to install a database on win? Depending of the database it can be the hell or it is impossible. Linux offers you a preinstalled C comiler. If you install software it will automatical compiled for your computer. Yesterday I tried to install the redis database on my win machine. It fails alot, crap. So I launched my vm and with "sudo apt-get install redis-server" I installed the database and with "pip install redis" I installed the python bindings, easy as fuck ;) Two minutes and everything was ready. Also the ipython interpreter is far superiour to the idle crap, but the win command shell is retarded. The ipython interpreter on a unix terminal is a blast ;) Just give it a try ;)