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Re:Ask HN: I'm looking for a Python mentor by projectileboy on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:20PM (#3166272)
If you're learning to program from scratch, you really need to start with Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ . This is going to be much better for you than the MIT and the O'Reilly stuff.
Re:Ask HN: I'm looking for a Python mentor by OpenAlgorithm on Friday October 28, 2011 @06:22PM (#3170339)
Great, thanks for your advice, it looks like a great book with lots of top exercises.