Developing Technical Expertise in Eiffel

I continue to make excellent progress in learning the Eiffel programming language. However I am running into a lot of minor technical gotchas that require good problem solving skills in order to proceed. I am delighted that Eiffel is so tricky and you can’t find much help for a problem on the Internet. I can’t find much sample code to provide any clues as to how to accomplish something. Most VB programmers would feel hopelessly lost if presented with a project done in Eiffel and they would quickly give up after struggling with the development tools. Eiffel also encourages the use of data structures like trees, linked lists, etc and unfamiliar programming concepts like variants, invariants, require and ensure which specify the preconditions for calling a routine and the postconditions at routine completion. Eiffel is way out of the typical Microsoft developer’s comfort zone and that is what I want to protect my investment in technical expertise.