I think that for learning programming, Python 3 is perfectly fine. Python really is one of the closest languages to algorithm pseudocode, be it 2.x or 3.x. Furt

I think that for learning programming, Python 3 is perfectly fine. Python really is one of the closest languages to algorithm pseudocode, be it 2.x or 3.x. Furthermore, downgrading to 2.7 is not that hard, if the newcomer decides that they want to start messing with Django or other 2.x libraries.