total newb here

[gerg]

I've bought a few books on the topic, but I'm a total newb to 
programming in general.  I've got about 4 years PHP / MySQL experience, 
but none with "actual programming".  To be honest, I don't even really 
know what Python is used for.  I'm thought I would start here and see if 
anyone knew of good places to start for someone as green as I.

And now I'm off to google.

Thanks in advance.

Greg