Learning Meteor [Part 1]: Resources to get started

I decided to finally dive into meteor.js and build an app with it. These are the getting started resources that used:

• (scotch.io) Building a Slack Clone in Meteor.js: Five part series that guides you through creating a chat-like application. Covers all the basic and has you code along. Warning: There is another meteor tutorial in scotch.io named Build a Polling App, stay away from that one.
• (Pluralsight) Building a Realtime Web Application with Meteor.js: Once I had the chat app complete and running, I turned to this course in Pluralsight. It gives you a better sense of how to organize something larger and use different technologies along the way. Warning: If you haven't build a sample app you are most likely going to get lost.
• (meteor) Creating your first app: With the release of meteor 1.3 AMD-like module support has been added, and the best way to get a sense of these changes is to run through the meteor hosted tutorial.
• (meteor) Meteor Official Guide: At this point you should be ready to read through this guide. This is a VERY long read and at parts it is very confusing (specially if you haven't built anything yet), but I found it useful to learn what is the expected end state for a meteor application.
• (meteor) Build and read the sample todos application: Lastly, just read through the full sample app. There were many things that made no sense to me so I would suggest to keep the guide open to refer as you read the code.

Warning: there are things in the sample app that really turned me off to the whole platform, as in 'is this really how things are supposed to be done here?', but I am staying positive and get more experience building a personal application and see how my opinion changes along the way. I'll write my impressions once I get further.