[Tutor] mac users

[Shane Rymer]

Dear Group,
I am a macOSX user and I would like to simultaneously learn how to 
program and learn python. Does anyone know of a good book, or online 
tutorial that would be helpful? I got the book, "Learning to Program in 
Python for the absolute beginner". but... its was made for Windows 
users and the examples in the book dont work for me, for example,

print "\a"

does not make my macOSX system "beep"
any guidance would be great!
thanks,
Shane