I've given the following advice to people who want to learn python, which overlaps with people who want to learn programming: Go through the python tutorial at

I've given the following advice to people who want to learn python, which overlaps with people who want to learn programming: Go through the python tutorial at python.org, until you start to get bored and start having ideas. Then write something simple that occurs to you. Then write something a little more interesting, and start treating the tutorial and other resource as resource, and your creative efforts as the main thing you're doing.