It's not a direct answer to your question, but a while back I ran across http://www.introtopython.org/ http://www.introtopython.org/ which in a beginners introd

It's not a direct answer to your question, but a while back I ran across http://www.introtopython.org/ http://www.introtopython.org/ which in a beginners introduction to programming using Python as the first language. It has a github project[1] full of IPython notebooks used in the course. [1] https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming