I have been trying out three introductory courses from Harvey Mudd College, MIT and University of Michigan. The first two from edX and the last one from Coursera.
The hardest ones seem to be the ones from edX - Harvey Mudd and MIT - but the content for those courses are very good and those who are up for the challenge, should probably try them out. For those who are starting out programming and want to learn it in a more relaxed manner, the one from Coursera - University of Michigan may be the better option. Generally all three so far, appear to be good enough courses to gain some knowledge in programming. Professor Charles Severance from the Coursera one, University of Michigan has written a remixed version of the 'Think Python' book.
Professor Zachary Dodds from Harvey Mudd has teamed up with others to also write a book about Python while Professor Eric Grimson from MIT has won awards for his research in computer vision.
Python is made from C so, according to this article, it is good to learn as many languages as possible.
Unlike Python, getting a C compiler can be a headache in itself as there are many out there and some may not run properly . CodeBlocks is relatively easy to set up and seems to have not much problems in running the programs.
http://www.cprogramming.com/code_blocks/
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