I R PROGRAMER

I started reading http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ today and I just finished "A few things to try" under 6. flow control. I know it's silly but it feels really satisfying even though what I've done is really simple and I probably did it in the worst way possible. I hope it stays this fun because I could see myself learning something from this.

Share your fun programming learning methods here or something. Or just point and laugh at my newbiness. Or tell me how much Ruby and Java sucks. Whatever is fine

If you are first getting into programming (as it seems), you really shouldn't start with a language like ruby. It will sour your ability to code with style because of it's syntactic sugar. If you want to script, use something more structure (and better in pretty much every way): Python.