Learn to Program

• pretty barebones
  - first few chapters are literally less than 5 pages
  - in an effort to be conversational (and...funny?), author's voice is cringe and distracting
  - didn't feel like i had the tools to figure out given exercises
  - would've been super appreciated if in the answers where we see how Chris would do it, an explanation of wth he's doing lol. otherwise, is it actually helpful?
  - got to chapter 9 before i skimmed the rest of the material to get what i could out of it
  
  there are free materials online that go into better depth than this book and provide better exercises to practice with.

Rather lazily written intro to programming through ruby. Bizarre examples and sample code that one gets bored of sorting through.

Beginners won't find it very difficult, but there isn't enough time spent on flow control or classes or basic OOP concepts for it to be that useful.