I think it depends on who you are and where you're looking.
Aspiring Ruby programmers, who are usually web developers, go looking for these hip resources like codecademy and screencasts and whimsical online books. Aspiring Python programmers, who are often scientists just trying to do machine vision or numerical computing research, might be more likely to use the Python mailing lists and old-school resources--which are just as useful.
Aspiring Ruby programmers, who are usually web developers, go looking for these hip resources like codecademy and screencasts and whimsical online books. Aspiring Python programmers, who are often scientists just trying to do machine vision or numerical computing research, might be more likely to use the Python mailing lists and old-school resources--which are just as useful.