It's unfortunate that the currently top rated post on this thread is about the merits of using Ruby as an introductory programming language. That's completely o

It's unfortunate that the currently top rated post on this thread is about the merits of using Ruby as an introductory programming language. That's completely off topic! I also backed the book with the understanding that it would essentially use pseudo-code. For as long as I've followed it this has never been advertised as a book about learning a language, it's always been presented as a book about learning basic concepts.