[taliesinb]

The new "fast introduction for programmers" is also a good place to start:

http://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-progra...

[taliesinb]

I should also add that the "Things to try" notebook has some simple examples that demo various kinds of functionality: https://programming.wolframcloud.com/objects/7ea9a27a-1ea8-4...

[szhorvat]

Yes, exactly. I should have said, try Mathematica.SE for questions after having read through the inroductory tutorials. :-) Thanks for the link!