I just downloaded Irrlicht tonight and I must say I find it to be fairly confusing. I have been able to breeze through most of the programming assignments my teachers have thrown at me fairly easily, but after going over some of the code in the tutorials I'm only reminded that their are many many levels of programming skill above my own that I hope to reach. I think I've found my next major project for the summer and hope to be fairly fluent in using Irrlicht by the end of the summer.
Ohh and the stickies and search functions are my friends.
I think I need to goto bed now, I'm rambling.