Zed Shaw recently made a nice free book for those with zero programming experience: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ That's

Zed Shaw recently made a nice free book for those with zero programming experience: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ That's not a path, but a start.