Depending on your friend and how he learns, he might find that solving real problems consolidates his knowledge faster than more exercises. Pick a library that

Depending on your friend and how he learns, he might find that solving real problems consolidates his knowledge faster than more exercises. Pick a library that does something that he's interested in, and which gives some immediate feedback, and let him at it. Pygame, pyglet and django spring to mind, or some sort of web scraper or GUI automater (eg. pywinauto) to interface with the real world. http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/ http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/ also has some simple (ish), but relatively real world problems.