I agree with this 100% - I too had Michael Hartl's book recommended to me as I was just starting to learn web development, and I found it very daunting. One ye

I agree with this 100% - I too had Michael Hartl's book recommended to me as I was just starting to learn web development, and I found it very daunting. One year later, I now understand a lot of these things with ease, but it definitely is not a good resource for those trying to get into web development. I haven't checked out this book yet, and I suspect I probably won't get a huge amount out of it since I am comfortable digging into source code of whatever tech to understand libraries. I do think more good resources for learning web development is a plus though, so thanks to the author for making this available for free!