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This is the route that I went... it starts at the beginning a teaches a lot of simple principles of programming. David Malan is engaging & fun to learn from, you can even follow along in real time (during fall & spring & interact with other people taking the classes remotely). I followed up with www.cs75.tv to learn some additional PHP, SQL, XML, CSS. I've been a marketing/product/seo/pr guy for 8 years and taking these courses have provided me with a much deeper understanding and appreciation of what the limitations and capabilities are. This has been invaluable when working with talented programmers who at least appreciate that I'm interested enough in what they're doing to learn the basics myself... sort of a mutual respect thing.

What about e-75 "Building Dynamic Websites"? http://cs75.tv/2010/fall/

I'm in the same boat as the person that posted the original message but I'm currently doing Rails for Zombies (free in-browser interactive course) after first doing tryruby.org (free interactive introduction).

thank you so much!! I was in the same boat just trying to plow through books, having the basic concepts down first after working through this class should help a ton! :)