If you're serious about picking up the language, I urge you to simply start building something. Build something you can relate with, something similar that you'

If you're serious about picking up the language, I urge you to simply start building something. Build something you can relate with, something similar that you've already built with a different toolset. Like a web server. A lot of the fancy abstractions don't make sense until you have a problem where you'll actually need them. Artificial problems, like some algorithmic assignments in books just don't click nearly as well to many of us.