[diarmuidc]

That's a good intro. What I always have to remind software guys who switch to FPGA design is remember each line you write is eventually going to end up in hardware.

That means when you write something you should have some understanding of the underlying hardware inferred. So is this going to give me some combinatorial logic, a register or a RAM? It's very easy to keep the software mindset of if it compiles then it's good.