Delving into unknown territory - Ruby

Yes, you read that right.

I've decided to take a stab at learning rudimentary programming in Ruby, to help broaden my understanding of taxonomies and programming syntax in general - as the first step towards increasing my technical understanding.

So far, I can successfully use my Terminal app to do basic math, and say "Kaitlin is the coolest."

That's skill.

No, but seriously, as silly as this all sounds, I don't come from a technical background, hence the need to help build up my own base knowledge on not only programming, but ontologies, taxonomies, RDF etc.

The road is not easy, my friend ... but entertaining for the skilled to watch ;)

(By the way, any suggestions for additional tutorials are welcome. Time to put myself back to school - metaphorically speaking ... )