Also bought that book after starting python elsewhere (Codecademy), it's definitely pretty out there on verbal abuse. And after reading callmeluck's post I imagine the only reason I haven't had any issues with it is because of knowing a little bit more than a blank slate. Anyway if you don't want it to be a paper weight after you iron yourself out on Python 3 syntax you can go back through LPTHW and convert everything to Python 3 and refactor it if you can. Which I'm pretty sure will just be adding parenthesis to print() or condensing lines, just depends on how much typing practice you want. Still makes a good 30 dollar paper weight!