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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).

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No problem :)

IMHO, Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" (free book) is also really good at teaching both Python and programming:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

This looks like a great book, I perused it briefly a while back, but I think that if you've been coding for 13 years you're well beyond the level of its target audience.

That's true. Zed's book is for total beginners; people who are just learning how to use a text editor.

Are you a professional coder now? If so, how/when did you start, once you started self-learning?

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