Much as I love _why's works, you may have a point - I've been reading through http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ on the suggestion of

Much as I love _why's works, you may have a point - I've been reading through http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ on the suggestion of a couple commenters on the post, and I'm pretty impressed so far. I'm going to forward it along to the friend whose question spawned the post.