Provided you have some familiarity with C like languages. I'm skimming through this now, and it really is quite well-written, but I'd be totally lost if I didn'

Provided you have some familiarity with C like languages. I'm skimming through this now, and it really is quite well-written, but I'd be totally lost if I didn't have some experience with C/C++ in school years ago since it does make a number of assumptions that you'll just 'get it' -- e.g., the section on for loops pretty much says "they work like in C." :)