Introduction to Computer Science for Everyone

No. Watch these instead and don't read about the man speaking and then it's ok link to this video Despite what he's done, these are very good tutorials and seem to be one of the few reliable sources of a good video tutorial on C

Don't fret, everyone has different learning styles. The people for whom the light switch worked don't understand people fumbling in the dark, but given an exotic enough set of circumstances, everyone would be as clueless. Programming is...interesting, since the basics require you to understand a whole other set of basics that don't directly affect your programming per se. Most programming instruction is stuff like grammatical order of sentence logic, and you have to have learned what letters, vowels & consonants, nouns & verbs, adjectives & adverbs and word order are for sentences before you can tap into grammatical order. And that's all before you can get into what you really wanted to do:…

A few years back there was a brilliant CS teacher named carlh here on reddit. His tutorials survive him on youtube. I highly recommend them to anyone who wants to start out, as he covers the basics and how elements relate to one one another, leading to a complete understanding of what you are doing and why each step. There are 66 videos, all 5-15m in length. Unfortunately, unrelated to the quality or value of his videos, he was also a depraved child molester who committed suicide after his arrest, which colors his legacy.

link to this video Is this the one you're referring to?