Game Plan So Far

I have been and intend to keep devoting a minimum of at least 3 hours a week to learning Python, as has been recommended by Randal Schwartz, and many others to be the general amount needed to learn a programming language without losing familiarity with it.

Currently I am following the MIT OpenCourseWare lectures, reading about a chapter a week from my Python book, and passively interacting with the python-help mailing list.

Update: have been looking through some of the simpler programs on pygame as another source of becoming familiar with the language.

My Materials

So far what I have and am using is:

• I have looked over many books and the most useful I have come across is Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition by Magnus Lie Hetland
  
• The MIT OpenCourseWare Computer Science lectures
• Python-help mailing list
  

Little Backstory - How I Got Into Programming

In the beginning we were all just bacteria in the one great ocean. . .Oh wait not that far back. ;-)

While in high school I took a class in Visual Basic, I did all right and it was fairly interesting but I never really got that into it.

My decision for Python was partly chance, and then I received more and more recommendations for it as I got increasingly more into it.

One of the first things I read was How To Become A Hacker (the old school not main stream kind of hacker)

I also looked over Instant Hacking by Magnus Lie Hetland, but spent a while before completing it.

Learning Python

Has anyone ever done this before? Rather than just putting or creating a tutorial I am going to document, to the best of my ability, my entire learning process/experience for the programming language Python.

I am also using this as a possible, or at least an experiment as, supplement to my learning process.