http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2008/lecture-notes/

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/