Coding / Computer Programming can be difficult. Some agents try to explain it in layman’s term, gamified terms, poetic writings, and sometimes just plain crazy. Regardless, it will work for some and only some.
Codesum(code basics) has been popular among the P2PU peer learning community where coding is taught for free in a non-traditional way. Just wrote a new post about coding, languages, metaphors, and all the non-sense. For poetic beginners…Bon Appetit
http://codesum.blogspot.com/2013/01/ruby-begins-new-day-and-on-my-rails.html