I learned Ruby from the Poignant Guide. I thought it was quite a fun way to learn. I think part of the secret is that the text was so puzzling and jokey that I

I learned Ruby from the Poignant Guide. I thought it was quite a fun way to learn. I think part of the secret is that the text was so puzzling and jokey that I found myself using the code to help figure out what was going on. If you don't read the code, you can't get the jokes. By the time I was finished, I was trained: now I subconsciously expect Ruby code to be more comprehensible than English itself! I also printed it out and read it from paper, which helps because it makes it easier to hold your head in your hands and stare at one example for minutes at a time. I think I must have spent an hour contemplating the enormous implications of Dwemthy's Array.