I found a nice site that has downloadable tutorials and beginner programing books and text's. It has everything from asm, c++ and vb to Delphi. You name it and I bet it's there.

The links to the files begin about halfway down the page.

http://www.blindprogramming.com/ftp/

This has site has some good tuts for newbies that want to get into programming.
Hope this helps all you newbies that have been asking for this knd of material. As well, it'll make a good reference suite for the old pro's.

Enjoy,