Like the CS50 series of Harvard, or like the MOOCs from the University of Helsinki. Well structured, extremely practice oriented from the first moment on, textual, with ample explanations. It should encourage the learner to go deeper by reading the documentation. CS50 goes one step further and starts with Scratch, which is a visual programming language/system designed to teach kids programming. This has the advantage to remove syntax from the first steps in programming so that the learner can focus on programming, on the logic part. This also makes the transition to textual languages easier. Logic, variables, flow, loops, conditionals, etc. are already known things, so the focus can now shift to the language(s). More on reddit.com

It's not Python that's hard to master, it's programming in general. Yes, anything real world is more complex than learner's toy examples, sometimes significantly so. You'll get there, eventually, if you keep at it and learn little by little. More on reddit.com

I wouldn't say the examples are wrong. But they make it seem as if the objects have to be as distinct as an apple is from a banana is from a mangoe. I might use this example instead: Class --> Fruit Subclasses --> Apple, Banana, Mango Objects --> apple1, apple2, apple3 good_banana, bad_banana, the_only_mango More on reddit.com

Say a class is a blueprint. That means an object is a specific whatever made from that blueprint. Say if you had a class called house for example. In the class you could make attributes (instance variables) like color and size. Behaviors (methods) of the class could be change color or set size. To make the object you would use the new keyword to instantiate(create) that object in memory. The object would then be a single house to whatever color and size you set it to. Then you could make another house with a different size and color. But each object you create has its own space in memory. So if you create two houses, say the same size and color, they are still two separate houses. More on reddit.com