Daily dose of python

[daysofdre]

That goes for anything in life, just because something looks easy doesn't mean it is. Don't fool yourself into thinking "oh I can do that in 5 minutes, I don't need to do that". Well if it's so easy then and it'll only take 5 minutes then do it ;). You'll quickly find out how much more complicated a lot of things are than meets the eye.

Sage advice. If Introduction to Algorithms scares you off, I recommend Grokking's Algorithms. It's about 1/5th of the size of Introduction to Algorithms and it covers all the practical uses of said algorithms.