First, there is an incredible breadth of free and paid online coursework you can use to keep going on. The following list are ones we recommend (as does Rails Girls internationally) that cover most topics you need to actually make something:
- Codecademy is a great series of interactive tutorials designed to teach you the basics of programming.
- Try Ruby as you've seen is an introduction to the Ruby language - it assumes some general programming concepts, but it's important to understand Ruby and not just Rails (which sits on top of it).
- Code.org is an incredible program designed to encourage Computer Science among high school students. I highly suggest checking out their video and their learning page - which links to many online resources that have free programming tutorials.
- Coursera and Udacity are two online university-style teaching places, wit
