If you're learning to program from scratch, you really need to start with Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ http://l

If you're learning to program from scratch, you really need to start with Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ . This is going to be much better for you than the MIT and the O'Reilly stuff.