Bruce Eckel's company provides public and private training and consulting services. Bruce Eckel has published over 150 articles and several books such as Thinking in Java (Prentice-Hall, 1998, 2nd Edition, 2000), the Hands-On Java Seminar CD ROM (available on the the Mind View site and enclosed to the book), Thinking in C++ (PH 1995; 2nd edition 2000), C++ Inside & Out (Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1993), among others.

He's given hundreds of presentations throughout the world, published over 150 articles in numerous magazines, was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee, speaks regularly at conferences and is the C++ & Java track chair for the Software Development conference. He provides public and private seminars & design consulting in C++, Java and Python.

The Python book is still an early alpha version (0.1.2) and the author warns that it is not an introductory book. Some more details about the project can be found at Bruce Eckel's site.

If you want to learn Python try the on-line course Learning to program by Alan Gauld