[doug1001]

one-line-at-a-time.

Just start typing at the interactive prompt (e.g., IDLE, included with python); when you finish typing a line, press return and see if it executes.

If it doesn't then type it again until it does.

But just start typing. It's a language you are learning--so start by speaking it.

repetition is the mother of skill.

All of the stuff in the books about lexical dispatch, aliasing, Liskov substitution principle, guarded re-binding, immutable namespaces--screw that. You'll come back to that stuff when the time is right and by then you will have already been doing all of those things.

Again: one line at a time. This will work, and you will have fun. i promise.