Ruby as First Language

[Tom Copeland]

If you are looking first to get insight into programming, go learn
Lisp, or enough Lisp to find your way around.

There are free videos online by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman of
their book, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/

The book is available online for free as well.

And if you want to convert those videos to sound files to listen to
during your commute, here's how:

http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/02/mp4_to_mp3_one_.html

I'm on lecture 8 at the moment... good stuff!

Yours,

Tom