I'm working through "Learn Python the Hard Way" (link in my previous post). The book is fairly basic, but provides a lot of practice exercises that will hopefully build up a decent foundation. Unfortunately, I was hoping to finish the book in two weeks and so far I'm not keeping to that schedule. To be more precise, I'm on exercise 17 of 52 and have 5 days left before the "deadline." Hopefully I'll be able to make up for some lost time in my remaining week off before I start my new job.

I've also been brushing up on math a bit through Khan Academy. I'd like to study a bit of Calculus and Discrete, but it's been several years since I've had any math, so I'm starting at the very beginning of arithmetic and working my way up. It feels a bit silly to be doing arithmetic drills, but it certainly can't hurt to improve my comfort level and speed with arithmetic and algebra before moving on to other things.

I would like to come up with other things to study, though nothing comes to mind currently. The Python and all the math should keep me busy for quite awhile though.

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