I'm looking in to starting to develop some solutions in C# (let's
ignore for a moment that I haven't done C# yet). Are there any good
"Beginning SharePoint Development For The Extremely Slow" or
"SharePoint Development In Little Baby Steps"-type resources? I know
of Scott Hillier's "Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007
Solutions in C# 2005", and will likely try to track down a copy.

My first project will likely have to do with site provisioning and
automatic list/page/web part creation. I've been looking in to it and
have found the SPWebProvisioningProvider class, so I'm hoping there's
resources outside of the Microsoft API documentation that really
clearly explains this stuff.