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Need an accessible guide to learning Python that won’t send you to sleep? “Invent with Python” is just what you need!

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 2nd Edition (to give it its full title) is a book written by Al Sweigart.  It is available for free on-line in both HTML and PDF format. You can download the PDF format from here.

The book is released under a Creative Commons licence and is aimed at people who are completely new to programming.

Comprised of 19 Chapters (at the time this post was written), it guides the reader through the basic concepts (Installation of Python, use of the Python interactive shell, Variables, functions, etc) and some of the more advanced stuff as well.

The coding examples in the book are all games (so you can actually have some fun with what you create as you go through the book!), which increase in complexity as the chapters progress.

There is also a Blog related to the book, so you can keep up with any future additions that are made to it.