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by stcredzero 5050 days ago
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

There's a free HTML book. I used it in a class at my hackerspace. I also taught CS 101/102 as a grad student. Learn Python the Hard Way is a very good beginner text. Do as it says, and it will teach you the game inside the game of programming. (For beginners that's the Edit-Test-Debug cycle.)