Guys, can anyone recommend a good way to learn python (it's going to be my first programming language)

Yup, get some videos/streams where the person codes and explains what (s)he's doing. Even Microsoft has done some of them (https://youtube.com/watch/...) but you'll find yourself skipping through the stuff as you start thinking about things. This one is probably the most noob-friendly. Then there's https://youtube.com/playlist/... I like, because it's shorter. But all the tutorials I watched I ended like in the half of 3/4 of the progress no matter what lang. Trying stuff is more important, because you'll start noticing what's going on there.

Also, when you get at least an idea about the lang, then look at these videos: https://reddit.com/r/Python/... Mainly all with Raymond Hettinger will teach you a lot. :)

Also, if you aim for GUI as all beginners which basically want to _see_ what's the code doing, then some framework will be useful. Depending on how much do you like your free time and what's your OS I can recommend www.kivy.org (just love it), www.pygtk.org or http:///www.riverbankcomputing.com/... or if you are oriented on 3D then www.panda3d.org or www.pygame.org ^^

thanks man, much appreciated.

I wasn't really interested in the GUI side of things to be honest but it's always good to know

your a wealth of information.

i think treehouse.com is pretty good for beginner python. i would also suggest channel9 for python in visual studio but I'm a dot net developer so I'm paid to say that

codecademy is pretty good too. Especially if you like Monty Python. My ex used that to learn. However don't think you are an expert after a week like he did. (so much school webpages I had to fix after he went on a n00b coding spree :$ )

If you're into books,
Think Python is a great start...you dont just learn the syntax, you learn to think like a programmar. plus tons of awesome exercises.
http://greenteapress.com/wp/... and pdf version is free.

Start.

on udemy.com, you'll find the 'complete phyton developer course', it's super easy and comprehensive, I learned it that way

I like https://learnpythonthehardway.org

Codecademy.com

I second codecademy.com
I learnt Python through that and am now a Java dev...