I checked this out over a year ago and I couldn't go through with MIT OpenCourseWare classes because of lack of subtitles for many of their videos... But now I'm pleasantly surprised to see they added subtitle supports for Python classes! Kudos to MIT for recognizing that there are many disabled/foreign students keen to learn from their OCW materials.
Having some free time on my hands lately, I've been cruising iTunesU for stuff like this, it's been pretty great. I can sit in my living room doing work on my laptop with courses from Stanford, MIT or ${reputible_university} playing on my TV. It's amazing how accessible knowledge is these days...
I tried these, but ended up with Google Code Classes: <a href="http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind...</a><p>worked better for me.
it's not "Python video lectures", it's "Introduction to Computer science" in which the teacher uses Python, and you can't barely see the code in the videos, so the real potential of these classes is theory (i know, i've seen them)
There is even an OpenStudy page for the course where you can get help: <a href="http://openstudy.com/study-groups/MIT+6.0+Intro+Computer+Science+(OCW)" rel="nofollow">http://openstudy.com/study-groups/MIT+6.0+Intro+Computer+Sci...</a>
Thanks for the link. I'm a self-taught coder of about 13 years now (C, Java, Ruby) and I always feel like there's a few basics I'm missing so I'll probably tackle this after Lisp. Besides, Python has always seemed like a very nice syntax (love when indenting means something but the colon bugs me).
I have nothing but praise for the MIT/SIT for putting their courses online. For an introduction to python and cs, however, I like
"Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python" <a href="http://pragprog.com/titles/gwpy/practical-programming" rel="nofollow">http://pragprog.com/titles/gwpy/practical-programming</a>
Excellent course--as a self-taught coder I used these classes to learn the basics. Great review of common data structures, big-O notation & algorithms, and even some basic coding syntax. HN has a number of lurkers who want to learn to code at any given time--all of them should take this class.