Hi all, I just wanted to say hello, and that I am going to be learning
programming on Ruby because of all the great things I have heard about it. I
know about 2 months of C, so I’m starting from ground up 
I hang out on irc.freenode.net in #gentoo and #ruby-lang as pastorJ
I look forward to learning and maybe someday contributing back what I can.
Thanks!
Jason Ashbaugh
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“Jason Ashbaugh” jason@junction111.com wrote in message
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Hi all, I just wanted to say hello, and that I am going to be learning
programming on Ruby because of all the great things I have heard about it.
I
know about 2 months of C, so I’m starting from ground up
Welcome to interesting, challenging and sometimes frustating world of
programming.
You are very lucky to have Ruby so you can focus on the essentials.
It is good to know C too, becuase by knowing how computers work, we can
write better code, even if we user a higher level langauge such as Ruby.
If you need ideas for small programs to write for learning programming, try
to write a small game. Games are fun and challenging - you can always add
new features and you get early feedback both positive and negative. If you
can write a game there are many other kinds of programs you can write.
For example, write a break the wall game: a bat on the ground controlled by
left and right arrow key, a ball bouncing off the bat and the walls, hitting
bricks in the cealing. When a brick is hit, it disappears. When the ball is
not catched by the bat, you loose a life. The objective is to remove all
bricks. Initially there are perhaps 5 rows of bricks. The RUDL library (SDL
Ruby interface) will give give you access to cross platform graphics and
sound.
If you publish early, I’m sure a lot of ruby’ists will follow the project
and give useful hints.
Mikkel
