I think it depends on what you want to learn. If you wanted to learn Ruby on Rails, then I would highly recommend the Ruby on Rails Tutorial [1]. It is about 15

I think it depends on what you want to learn. If you wanted to learn Ruby on Rails, then I would highly recommend the Ruby on Rails Tutorial [1]. It is about 15 hours of hands on videos and labs, which will help you create a working application. You can also check out RailsCasts [2], which has many hands on videos. Or get a subscription to Safari Books Online [3], where you can get digital copies of the latest technical books on many many topics. You can use these to teach yourself pretty much anything technical. I cannot stress this enough. Get used to reading a book and teaching yourself the topic. Over your career you will need to be continually learning, the sooner you understand this the better! Zed Shaw has a site called Learn Code The Hard Way -- Books And Courses To Learn To Code [4] which look pretty good. I have never downloaded them, but from what I've read they are hands on labs which teach you Python, Ruby, C, SQL, and Regex. Worth checking out. I would also highly recommend learning Linux and/or Mac. Just download virtualbox and play around with linux (ubuntu is pretty friendly). Most programming jobs will be simplified if you at least understand Linux and you know how to get around the command line via ssh. [1] http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ [2] http://railscasts.com/ http://railscasts.com/ [3] http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ [4] http://learncodethehardway.org/ http://learncodethehardway.org/