I started learning Rails this summer too! Chapter 1 (the set up) was very annoying, like he warns. StackOverflow is great though! People often answer your qu

I started learning Rails this summer too! Chapter 1 (the set up) was very annoying, like he warns. StackOverflow is great though! People often answer your questions within minutes (if you word them well and put thought into them). That's the best advice I've got for chapter 1. It's something that is going to be annoying. I'd recommend going through his tutorial rather briefly first. Like a skim. Then read through http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ http://guides.rubyonrails.org/. Then go through is tutorial one more time. Then try building your website, while using Railscasts and StackOverflow for help. See http://fast-reaches-9399.herokuapp.com/how-to-learn-to-program http://fast-reaches-9399.herokuapp.com/how-to-learn-to-progr... for more information. Good luck!