Modding Elemental for beginners

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/

A lot of Elemental will be in something resembling plain-text, and there will be numerous editors, so unless you want to do somethimg radical like add a mirror world or redo the AI, you probably won't have to "code" @ all....

http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net/ 

This is the best site I've found, it gives you a PDF book to work through which is very much for newbs!! I'm trying to learn how to program in Python myself for the same reason and so far I've found going through this book interesting and fun.

Thanks for the site, Taranis! Looks pretty good so far! +1 karma for you and Denryu!

Hello i would also like to thank you guys for the links for python. same as me i am starting school again and going for computer gamming. but got get alll the boring classes outa way first (and lazzyness lol). i rember MoM as one of my all time favorites games and waited for a sequell forever. this game looks to be close and with the abilty to mod posabilty better and hopeful for alpha. i am so jazzed about this game and the waiting is like grrr. i have had a ton of games with the possabilty of modding but did not have any disare to do it buy now i am getting excited and am aflot of ideas and cant wait to start. sorry if sloppy this is my first time i have ever posted on any board always just read. man i am so EXCITED later all

The best way to learn programming is to try programming. Seems like you have been given some good links, so good luck and have fun .

Books are, in general, less useful than the web. If you can find a book by one of the authors of a language, though, then it might be worth picking up. A search for 'Guido Python' may help.

I don't know about that Night's Edge.  I really like the textbooks from the courses I've taken.  getting an intro C++ book and going through it from start to finish seems like a good idea to me.

Good point. Different learning techniques work better for different people. Nights Edge favors web-aided direct experimentation, you had a good experience with a book, and other folks might do well with instructional videos or even a good, old-fashioned lecture series. There's no universal 'best way to learn,' just the ways an individual has found that work best for him or her.

If you're really dense, you start with a thousand plus character regular expression that populates a forty gig database by parsing infrastructure inspection entries using hundreds of different recording methods from all the small companies the major multi-national corporation has absorbed over the years.  It took me several hours to figure out what it was doing.

Yeah, some of us are insane, with insane relatives, and don't quite grasp that whole learning process thing most people go through...

YIKES!

One of the most important things on programming is logic. Once you have learn how to structure toughts logically on your mind, it´s easier to learn/do programming stuff.

Python has an easy to learn syntax, and there are tons of e-learning books on the net. Good luck!

ARRGGHHHH!! I so want to learn this stuff.... But time, time is the problem....