- Start by subscribing to Python Weekly mailinglist. Good overview of new projects, libraries, etc.
- Depending on your programming experience, skip/skim/follow/study a course book. For free/online, you have for instance,
- Dive Into Python which is example-heavy & aimed at people with some programming background.
- How To Think Like a Computer Scientist starts more from scratch, and is also used in an introductory programming MIT OCW course for electrical engineering students if you want video lectures/excercises/exams.
- Install globally pip, package manager for Python packages.