MIT OpenCourseWare | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 6.189 A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python, January IAP 2008 | Lecture Notes
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-...
Gonna give Python a go, could be cool to learn for some cronjobs or so.
Don’t forget to read the referenced book at http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/