A while ago, I asked my girlfriend what programming language she did her work in. She said, "Ruby on Rails." Since she was working at that moment, I googled what that was. Soon after, I ended up on the "Machine code" Wikipedia page, more confused than ever. She compared this to telling me that she was an Impressionist painter, and ten minutes later seeing me on the Wikipedia page for "Shapes."
I've decided to take up a computer-learning journey. I'll hit it from a couple angles. There's learning HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby. There's wading my way through using Linux for the first time. There's also regular old computer science, starting from "how does a circuit work." I learn better when I write stuff down, so here's where I'll do that.