Streandering Meams

Every now and then I get bored and want something to do other than read my RSS feeds to delicious or reddit and that is when I try to actually learn something. The following links are the best tutorials that I have found for any particular language. (Note that I haven't actually completed any of them, since I am lazy. A lot of programming books/articles/blogs say that being lazy is a good thing for a programmer (physicists say this too) but they always say this in the introduction, which goes to show that they aren't really writing for the truly lazy. Telling a lazy person that laziness is a virtue at the onset of your book guarantees that said lazybones will put the book down some time before chapter three and never get around to reading the rest. If you really want to teach the lazy, put your twee characterizations in the epilogue.)

Some of the below links are to books, but those books are on-line and free and do have exercises.

I'm always looking for something better, so feel free to set me straight.

Perl Monks -- Tutorials

A Byte of Python

why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

Tcl for Web Nerds

The Scheme Programming Language

Practical Common Lisp

Thinking in C++