For *any* folks learning to program, or learning a new programming language:
I've been a professional dev for a lo-o-ong time, and for all my career the folks at ACCU (http://accu.org) have always been helpful. It's mostly focussed on C and C++, but there's a bunch of Python, C#, Java, Groovy, Ruby and other stuff too. It's a mailing list rather than a load of forums (like this) which is free to post to, but they have magazines for members. It's based in the UK, and it's ~50gbp per year, so it's inexpensive. The magazines are excellent quality too; you can view the Overload PDF online here: http://accu.org/index.php/journal
They run an annual conference in the UK, which I've also been to several times. It's a great conference, and also not nearly as expensive as most of the cybersec ones :)
Registration for April 2016 is currently open, see the website.