Ruby on Rails is not a beginner's thing, and definately not for visual people... you can get some good books from O'Reilly, they are very dry and not visual.

seriously, you'll hate programming unless you can think abstractly.

But it does help if you 1) skip the introduction chapter that goes on about how useful it supposedly is 2) start off with short simple tutorials that you can find in magazines like .Net or on pages like webmonkey.

A good starter programming language for visual people is Java. Ivor Horton's book I'd recommend, and there are classes all over on it. C++ is also relatively easy to find classes on. They'll help you start to think like a programmer, Ruby's advanced stuff.

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