Learning to program in python

Thanks xkcd for the cartoon.

Here is a great book for non-programmers or beginning programmers: Learn to Program Using Python. It is quite out of date however, being stuck at python version 1.5. As of this writing python 3 has been released, but not widely adopted; python versions 2.4-2.6 are commonly used. Everything in the book still works in 2.x, but there have been a lot of improvements in the language that you won't hear about in the book.

However Learning to program is the book's companion web site and it is rather more up to date It also includes some other languages that suck more than python along side the python examples. This clutters it up. It is available as an on-line tutorial or in PDF format.