The Power of Python

I've decided that I'm going to learn how to program. Now, I've started this process countless times before and always seem to get distracted or discouraged after a few days. Not this time though! I found some instructional videos on youtube that have made the learning process fun and fairly easy. Check out this site, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mf0h3HphEA, and give it a shot! The instructor is easy to understand, fun, and proceeds at just the right pace. This is very helpful if you are a visual learner, like me, and need some one there to actually show you how it's done. Bucky, the instructor, jumps right on into the programming with how and where to download the software from, and I believe that you even create your first program in the first tutorial. Python is nice because it's a lot more straight forward than java. The simplest java program is as follows:

class HelloWorldApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
}
}

Where as the simplest python program is:

print "Hello, World!"

You can simply type that in and press enter and you've created yourself a program. I've completed the first 20 lessons and I'm enjoying it thoroughly. Plus, the tutorials are between 2 and 10 minutes a piece, so you don't have to commit a ton of time to each one.