I'm actually looking on a good "starter" on NodeJS. Most of what I've read seems to dive right in at a level above my head. (I'm reasonably familiar with Javascript, although 90% of what I write is utilizing jQuery nowadays, so I'm hazier about the core than I used to be.

I found the 'How to Node' blog to have the best examples that actually contained working code (Express and other sites' example code doesn't seem to be updated or work): http://howtonode.org/

I also stumbled upon this node project on Github and was learning from how he put stuff together: https://github.com/kelper/Poll

I don't know of any, let alone decent.

I think the best you can do is find some tutorials but even in that department there's nothing to be crazy about.

So far it looks like the prime way to learn about it is to experiment (well I guess that's the best way anyways).

It would be a good idea to look into some general JavaScript specific stuff if you're not very familiar with it.

Or just download some sample projects from github and look at that during your flight, haha.

4 hours is not that much anyways, so you might just as well give up on it.

Peepcode has a great screencast. It is a little dated but you can follow along using older versions of node. This is a good place to start. I am starting to do my own 5-minute screencasts.

http://mcottondesign3.appspot.com/blog/screencasts

Sometime ago I came across those two (but haven't started reading them yet): http://nodebeginner.org/, http://nodetuts.com/handson-nodejs-book.html