Hmm this is tricky. I had the same problem before and I couldn't find anything between good but heavily math loaded explanation and ready to use implementations.
The problem with ready to use implementations like PyBrain is that they hide the details, so people interested in learning how to implement ANNs are in need of something else. Reading the code of such solutions can be challenging too because they often use heuristics to improve performance and that makes the code harder to follow for a starter.
However, there are a few of resources you could use:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj658979.aspx
http://itee.uq.edu.au/~cogs2010/cmc/chapters/BackProp/
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19323/Image-Recognition-with-Neural-Networks
http://freedelta.free.fr/r/php-code-samples/artificial-intelligence-neural-network-backpropagation/
