Programming Tutorial for absolute beginners

[John Salerno]

Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:

> "Python is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is
> used in a wide variety of application domains. Python is often compared
> to Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or Java. Some of its key distinguishing
> features include:..."

I'd be careful with that definition for newbies though. There's nothing 
more frustrating (as a newbie myself) when Python (or anything else) is 
compared to something as a way to explain it, yet I have no idea what 
the other things are either! A programming newbie won't know about, and 
maybe won't even have heard of, those other languages.