Teaching programming (Score 1)

When you learn more about how to teach programming I'd be interested in your thoughts (and others) on the best way to learn programming. I've had some experience with visual basic and C++ (quite a while ago) but will soon ake a new course in OOP. As I recall Do loops, for next, arrays were all things I had trouble with. I need to perform well in this class so any advice offered would be very cool.