I was going to have an edit to my post but you replied before I could type it: and I agree with Creativity, it's important to try your newly-found skills and actually make something. Try to think of something cool to do (that doesn't necessarily require a GUI, i.e. something in the terminal). You could look into python's urllib and make some sort of website scraper, or you could find some website you use's API and try to do something with that. If you're completely lost, you can try some problems on Project Euler - since you're a math major, some of those things might be right up your alley anyway. ---- That having been said, it might be easier to learn a little bit of programming first without trying to also create something, then later after you feel comfortable you can start trying to apply it.