It's a legit thing, and from my brief perusal of it, a decently structured way to learn programming as well. Definitely worthwhile and worth checking out if you don't like to deal with the lecture format of the OCW course.

The name of the site is a bit misleading from what I can tell, since its goal is also to teach programming rather than to teach Python (but perhaps that's why it's "the hard way").

This post was edited by irimi on Dec 17 2012 04:57pm

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and to irimi, according to the site "the hard way" is just the more traditional way i guess. But if that is what it takes to grasps the concept then so be it.

This post was edited by hauntmachine on Dec 17 2012 08:58pm

yeah "learn python the hard way", is a great book to get your feet wet if you just want start writing some code right away...... one of those linked lectures series would prob be good also, hey you can do both!

my 2nd semester just started and before continuing i would like to know if Physics has a huge impact on programming as much math? I dont seem to do too well in AP physics right now D:

math/physics can play big roles depending on what you are doing. However, if someone asks you to make a program with math/physics, it seems likely that they would tell you all the formulas you need to know etc.

at your stage in school, i wouldn't worry about it lol. when i was in high school, i felt algebra 2 and physics B were the most overloaded math courses. they just stick in a little bit of many different things. physics C should be easy though.

I don't know if Codecademy is looked down on here, but Codecademy.com at least for me has been a gradual step into programming. They have several languages to choose from including python and javascript.

never heard of it, but now has piqued my interest. Maybe carter/irimi/rockon can comment on it

I've never heard of it before and it's piqued my interest as well because they allow you to make custom courses. I'm going to have to look into this and see how good some of these tutorials are and see if I can add anything to it.