Thank you so much for this post. It has been very, very helpful and motivating motivating motivating rookie programmer like myself.

@Tyrunn: We have our first program from a reader coming at the end of February, actually :). But of course, if anyone wants to help or has an idea for a lesson, please email me! We'd love the help.

I started to learn how to program from something like this...free information on the 'net. Then, a couple years later when I started my EE degree I took a programming class. I had already learned everything that class had to teach except for structs near the end and something else (some miscellaneous statement or…

@Adam Dachis: If it were easy ...

Would anyone else like to see this redone every week in a different language?

I was bored - so PDF version for you lucky people! All sections are included, I did my best to format it the same as the site. Don't worry Adam, I gave you credit. I'm uploading it as a pdf, but if you have any other format requests, just say so, it's originally in .odt. Enjoy!

Adam - as an IT Program Manager / Business Analyst, I really appreciate the time it took for you to put this series together. I feel as though I learned a lot without having to bug the developers to teach me things. Definitely appreciate your hard work!