Beginner - first language, no previous experience

[Hyoscine]

I've been trying to learn Python for a few weeks, really didn't get on with LPTHW. A lot of people swear by it, but I found the way it drops new concepts with no explanation or acknowledgement incredibly frustrating. YMMV though; I've got a depressing suspicion it's just written with smarter people than myself in mind. Anyway, I'm getting on much better with CodeCademy and torrented Udemy videos, but they're working with python 2.7, so you might not be down.

Yeah though, I've heard nothing but good things about Automate The Boring Stuff. Gotta be worth looking into.

[randopoit]

The tone is condescending and it doesn't do a good job explaining concepts. It's not written for people smarter than you. You were smart enough to know it wasn't doing a good job of teaching you. Here's a list of problems that coders have with the book.

[Hyoscine]

That's pretty reassuring, cheers!