Fred, I've been learning python off and on for a couple years now. I recommend: Alan Gauld's Learning to Program http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ and How to Think Like a Computer Scientist http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
Also find a project you are passionate about and try to program it in Python. I like Traveller (an old rpg) and text adventure games. So I used Python to create some utilities and then a game. Hope this helps. Ara -- Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga. Ubi sum. Sub ortu solis an sub cardine glacialis ursae. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor