Looking for Tutorial

I am looking for a tutorial or something I can work off of. My site has like a main page with links to folders in it. One of the folders is a wordpress blog, another is a folder to a phpbb forum, and there are other little applications being added. What I need to find is a way to dynamicly display recent posts to the wordpress blog on the front page. I have done similar tasks in asp.net, but PHP is something new to me. It can really be in JavaScript, PHP, anything that will work on a linux server.

Has anyone done something like this, or does anyone know of a place I can find a tutorial or something to get me started?