If you'd like to learn basic programming concepts right away, check out Pine's 'Learn to Program' (http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

If you'd like to learn basic programming concepts right away, check out Pine's 'Learn to Program' (http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/) If you'd like to learn best practices, check out Hunt & Thomas' 'The Pragmatic Programmer' (http://www.pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer http://www.pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer). To get up to speed fairly quickly on what's going on under the hood, check out Petzold's 'Code' (http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/) and Nisan & Schocken's 'The Elements of Computing Systems' (http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/).