Hello folks. Don't know if you've seen this: http://www.ai-class.com/ (didn't find any mention in the forum by searching).

It's an online course provided by Stanford covering theory of artificial intelligence. I registered, although I an extremely newbish programmer, because I've always been interested in computer theory and programming and this seems like the ideal opportunity to get to grips with it.

The course starts in October 10th. Since my university in Athens will probably be closed by 50 c*nts resisting a law, which has already passed and reduces the power of the mafia known as university political parties (sorry, a bit bitter about that), I won't be giving my regular exams and I have quite a lot of time to prepare and spruce up in basic programming theory. Could anyone suggest some good book/ site/ whatever resource for an amateur programmer? Specifically, the course suggest python for newbies, so I thought to start from there. Any suggestions?