Python Class

There has been talk about a Django course, I can't speak for Treehouse but, I think that's one of the new topics they hope to launch in 2013.

There is no such thing a perfect programming language. Both Python and Ruby share similar goals of increased programmer productivity. Their respective web frameworks were developed to written to allow Python & Ruby programmers to "make hard things easier and impossible things possible."

The most likely reason is that Treehouse is a young company and a few of their early hires knew Ruby on Rails so that's they taught.

Also Ruby on Rails is the new hottness and the startup world is all about buzz, so catching a ride Rails' coattails is probably not a bad business strategy for an early stage startup.

Dude, I would so love a Python class!

@Jonathan -

If you are interested in learning Python now you check out:

• The Learn Python the Hardway course.
• You can practice with Codecademy's Python course.
  
• Supplement with book Think Python

@James

Appreciate all the links, you are the link-man.

@Jonathan - If there's one skill I've got it's Google-fu.

My plan

1. Find awesome stuff
2. ???
3. Profit

@Jonathan - There's also Udacity's CS101 course.

It's a free video-based course with quizzes similar to Treehouse, it uses Python.

There's also a followup course on Django at Udacity.

You can read about this guy who taught himself to program in 8 weeks using these resources.