+1 for Udacity. I'm using it now. It's really well thought out and reinforces learning through exercises after each short 3-4 min section of instruction. They u

+1 for Udacity. I'm using it now. It's really well thought out and reinforces learning through exercises after each short 3-4 min section of instruction. They use Python for the building a search engine course (CS101), which is a fine (some say best) language to start with.