new to programming: suggestion

[Al Christians]

There's a great old book from about 25 years ago: "Graded Problems in 
Computer Science".   It's a language-neutral set of problem sets that
starts with very simple basics and takes you through a big part of what 
was the undergraduate CS curriculum back then.  Nothing much about
GUI's or OO's or relational databases, but you'll be able to code real
good when you've worked your way through it.  And of course, you can
use GUI's and OOP as you work the problems. You'll need a basic 
reference for your language of choice to help you get through it.


Al