So You Wanna Start Programming

There are a tonne of resources out there for any novice to gain programming experience.  Plenty of books exist on the subject, and they're all great.  But there are very few resources out there like Hackety Hack.

This program teaches you how to program in Ruby, a very recent object-oriented programming language that is most commonly associated with Ruby on Rails, a web application framework.  It is a very interactive way to learn how to program, and I highly recommend it to people that want to learn the mystic ways of the code.  Check it out!