I reccomend LYAH even to programmers, there are enough things in the language that it makes sense to go slow at first. I think beginners get lost because they

I reccomend LYAH even to programmers, there are enough things in the language that it makes sense to go slow at first. I think beginners get lost because they try to go too fast at first and get impatient. For example, see below about the guy who tried to do GPU programming early on and got frustrated.