Learn Python

&#62; Right now we only support social logins.<p>That's too bad; I was interested in moving beyond the first page. This is about as far from a social site as you can get. You don't have any need for my social graph. Please stop doing this.<p>If you're too lazy to write your own auth system, at least support OpenID or Persona or some other open standard rather than forcing people to use one of your blessed providers.

These learning websites never work for me. I know starting with basics (operations, variables, string manipulation) is the sensible thing to do, but they bore me. I always find easier (well, harder but more engaging) to read real code running a real simple application and trying to figure it out by breaking it. (it's not a critic of learning sites or this one in particular. It's just they don't speak to me.)

Looks like this setup is quiet good.I only have one question:<p>Why, exactly, do I need to sign up? What purpose does this serve?<p><pre><code> "If you have registered as a member and given LearnStreet consent, we may share your personally identifiable information with advertisers, business partners, and other entities that are not affiliated with LearnStreet who would like to send you information about their products and services. We do not share personally identifiable information with other third-party organizations for their marketing or promotional use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in." </code></pre> Never mind, I can hazard a guess.

This might be a useful resource (Learn Python the Hard Way): <a href="http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/" rel="nofollow">http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/</a>

I liked the tutorial, so I send it over to my girlfriend, since I've been nagging her for quite some time now to learn python. She's doing lots of statistics, and uses R for that, and I think that Python is a great addition to R. It never really worked so far, until today. She really liked this tutorial and has been going through it for quite some time now. It is really, really well made.

I really like that they capture and address the problem of pushing people out into IDE's where they can do real work. Most of these sites are flawed in that they want to create a permanent lock-in to their tools, but the best learning happens once you can use an IDE.

There are still a few issues with the UI here -- I can't scroll the glossary or the table of contents, and it's way too long for my browser window.

How MUCH of Python can you learn at this site for free? If I was told to get my wallet out after a few little courses I'd almost feel like I wasted time.