- Pick up something relatively easy what you can accomplish within a very limited amount of time just to get the taste of language syntax. Timeframe examples:
- one full day of dedicated time or
- one weekend of relatively dedicated time or
- one week spending 1-2 hours each day
My weapon of choice was Codecademy.
- There is a free course on Python 2. The syntax is not that different from Python 3, difference under the hood at this point is neglectable and you'll figure out the difference between Python 2 and 3 earlier which is good for general literacy.