Rob Sweigart’s Automate the Boring Stuff with Python talks about programming in the particular: It uses a course in Python as a way to learn how to turn tedious tasks into snappy Python scripts.

By guest blogger Patrice Gans Jason Briggs’ new book, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming (No Starch Press, 2012), could not have hit the market at a better time.

The new PyScript project lets you embed Python programs directly in HTML pages and execute them within the browser without any server-based requirements.