From: Chris Pine <cpine@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T13:30:53+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Learn to Program -- A Tutorial for the Future Programmer

I finally finished it!  I received a great deal of encouragement this last
month, so I made that push, and it's done.  Yes, it took me a sesqui-year to
finish, but we had a baby during that time, and it threw things off for a
while.

It has also been moved to a new (and permanent) space:

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

What is it?  It's a tutorial for teaching programming (using Ruby, of
course) to the non-programmer.  It has been tested on several
non-programmers, and it seems to be a success.  Also, all of the code
examples are executed every time the page is loaded, and the output (and
possibly scripted user input) are captured and displayed as well, so the
parts with `rand' or with `Time.now' are dynamic!

If you get a chance, I'd love to hear any comments/corrections you might
have.

If you linked to the old tutorial, please update your links.

If you know of anyone interested in programming, but not knowing where to
begin, point them to this tutorial and let me know how it goes!

Hope you like it,

Chris