Check out his book since it looks like it might be good, but if you really want to learn Python and need a good place to start, I've written one:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

It's free, you can download a PDF, and you can hit:

http://learncodethehardway.org/

To ask questions if you get stuck.

If you already know how to code it might be too simple for you.

Thanks for the suggestion :-) I had a ton of experience with C and Java back when I was in high school and somewhat through university, but after I finished university I fell out of it. Your book looks like a great introduction for a complete newcomer to programming, but I've picked up "How To Think Like a Computer Scientist" and it seems to be more on my level.

You are an amazing person, however, for releasing all of your hard work for anyone to learn from!

This might be the ticket: http://inventwithpython.com/ . I haven't gone through it really, but the goal of teaching through making games is similar, and I do know he wrote a pretty good clone of gorillas (http://github.com/jesusabdullah/gorillas is my own copy, if it interests you).

Wow! Thanks :-) This is exactly what I was looking for.

So much nostalgia for the years spent trying to code a killer text-based game in QBASIC... tear