If you are a non-programmer, give this free book a try: "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" ( http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ http://www.ibiblio.org/

If you are a non-programmer, give this free book a try: "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" ( http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ ). As it explains in the Preface ( http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/preface.html#auto2 http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/preface.html#auto2 ), Python makes things easy to learn.