[Tex/LaTex] What are good resources for a beginner, non-computer genius type of person, to learn Plain TeX

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I noticed that there are a lot of "beginner" resources for LaTeX, lots of novice friendly tutorials etc.

Are there similar resources available for Plain TeX that are geared towards beginners?

Please note, prior to answering, that this question only relates to "Plain TeX".

To the best of my research, all of the TeX.SE existing answers setting out beginner resources deal only with "LaTeX".

The answer: what-are-good-learning-resources-for-a-latex-beginner is great for people who want to learn LaTeX. It does not however address those people (including me) who want to get started on learning Plain TeX.

The answers given so far are well thought out "Plain TeX" beginner resources.

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Grab a copy of TeX for the Beginner, by Wynter Snow. It teaches basics of Plain TeX programming and has notes for LaTeX users explaining key differences and how to implement similar features. Additionally, browsing through the Plain TeX contributions directory of CTAN may give you some useful code to learn from.

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I've used LaTeX wikibook mostly. It's a really good resource when writing mark-up which is the easiest and fastest way to learn.

Unfortunately, proper maintenance of the LaTeX Wikibook has gone astray. Quite a lot of the provided information is a bit outdated. Since it is very hard for a beginner to judge the quality of advice, maybe it's better to choose another document for now.

When the information is once again up to date, this little note will disappear again.

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there is a TeX package miniltx:

\input miniltx

\font\myTT=cmr5 at 20pt

\newcommand\stuff{%
  Here comes some text $\ldots$ which should
  be typeset $\ldots$}
\newenvironment{morestuff}
  {\myTT}
  {\par}

\stuff

\morestuff
foo bar baz
\endmorestuff

foobar
\bye

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