Wow, the selected answer by Joel is, unusually, awful. Has he ever tried to teach someone who is at his 30's and with no programming experience? He suggests the

Wow, the selected answer by Joel is, unusually, awful. Has he ever tried to teach someone who is at his 30's and with no programming experience? He suggests the "The C Programming Language, K&R"? Yeah, at that pace he will be able to write a `for loop` by the time he is forty.