It's a book that teaches programming assuming no programming knowledge, and is organized into exercises you do one per week or faster if you want. It's basically a book you'd read before you try any of the others, teaching you the stuff that other programmers forgot they learned.
I actually spent last night reading through your book. I've been programming for a while now, but I'm by no means a hardcore programmer (ruby and javascript make me feel too comfortable). But I did pick up a few tricks from you, especially the rules for if-else-if. Good stuff. If there's one thing I'd like to read more is coding tips like that. Anything else up your sleeves Zed?
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
It's a book that teaches programming assuming no programming knowledge, and is organized into exercises you do one per week or faster if you want. It's basically a book you'd read before you try any of the others, teaching you the stuff that other programmers forgot they learned.