Just picked this up for my goals this year. If I don't like it, I can always sell it off and I don't like having to switch between screens on my laptop for tutorials. Has anyone used How to Learn Python the Hard Way? Did you like it? Hate it?

Pick up violent a python too.. It helped me get through this book so I can get through checkio.org..

I used the online edition of this a long time ago. Very well written and gives practical advice. I never finished it but all the python I remember is from his book.

Im planning on learning python, which book would you guys recommend, which one was the most useful for you?

Depends if you want to focus on Python 2

My housemate needed to remote control a parrot 2 ar drone and I found a NodeJS library and despite me explaining asynchronous code, call backs and the event loops, he still wrote it entirely procedurally. Needless to say it tried to do everything at once and crashed when demoing it.

So I found him a Python library pointed him at the hard way and the drone is working fine now.

The hard way is the best way. It isn't the most fun, but it will teach you and you will learn. Can't recommend it enough.