[Coco] OT: FPGA Guys out there

[Louis Ciotti]

OK so I have dipped my toe a couple of times into the FPGA water, even have
a Spartan 3E board, but now I really want to get into using these devices.
 Short of spending $$ on a course can someone recommend some reading
material to get a true beginner of using FPGAs up to speed and
programming/making useful things with them?  Up until know I have been
butchering other code snippets, and not truly getting how to do things from
my own code from scratch.