Agreed! Start with something really really simple like arithmetic. Part of the motivation for this blog post was that I struggled to get over the hump that came

Agreed! Start with something really really simple like arithmetic. Part of the motivation for this blog post was that I struggled to get over the hump that came once I had done the basic stuff like arithmetic, variables, if/else, top level functions, and got to the harder bits like closures, garbage collection, etc.