From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T12:23:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as First Language

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 01:27 +0900, James Britt wrote:
> If you are looking first to get insight into programming, go  learn 
> Lisp, or enough Lisp to find your way around.
> 
> There are free videos online by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman of 
> their book, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
> 
> http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
> 
> The book is available online for free as well.

And if you want to convert those videos to sound files to listen to
during your commute, here's how:

http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/02/mp4_to_mp3_one_.html

I'm on lecture 8 at the moment... good stuff!

Yours,

Tom