This is awesome, Zed. I would have loved this five years ago, the first time I tried (unsuccessfully) to teach myself programming. I actually tried to learn wit

This is awesome, Zed. I would have loved this five years ago, the first time I tried (unsuccessfully) to teach myself programming. I actually tried to learn with emacs and SICP because I took advice from the "wrong" people. The second time I tried to learn programming it was a lot easier because I was in grad school and had people to help me. If you don't have people to help you, then existing materials are very hard to learn from. This book seems perfect for solving that problem.