MIT OCW's class Intro to Programming using Python will teach you general programming concepts that are common to many languages. You will start with basic thing

MIT OCW's class Intro to Programming using Python will teach you general programming concepts that are common to many languages. You will start with basic things like iterators and work through some algorithms and the basics of object-oriented programming. It is an awesome mix of challenging and a lot of fun. There are two versions but I think they are largely the same, just organized differently. I took the earlier one: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... Feel free to e-mail me (address in the profile) if you have questions about this particularly.