If you have ever programmed in any language this book is of no use, and stops after the trivia, basically

As the description says, the book covers the absolute basics. But, you barely learn enough to really do anything. And, it sounds the first two "chapters", if you can call the that, with downloading Python and the authors preferred IDE PyCharm. This IDE is barely better than what's included with Python. I'd honestly like ok elsewhere to learn Python.