life is short - you need Python!

An online interactive edition of the book How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (by Elkner et. al) is being developed by Brad Miller and David Ranum. I think it is going to be a great online resource to learn python, specially for the beginners. Students can do homework right in the browser (yes, and that's why for this ebook you will require html5 supported modern browser). The site is developed using Google App Engine and you will need a gmail account to access the ebook. They used Python 3 instead of Python 2.x in the book, which is a good thing in my opinion. So you can check the book here: http://thinkcspy.appspot.com .

Well, if you are not sure about what I am talking, start the Python interpreter. Then import this , press enter and read the output. :) subeen@subeen-Satellite-L300:~$ python Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:05:24) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import this