Well, I've been playing with Ruby now for a couple of months, and I'm really having a lot of fun, both with the language and the extraordinary community around it (_why, I've not laughed so much in years :)).
Anyway, I learn best by doing, and that's what I've been, uh, doing, with Ruby - Whenever I've seen a question or idea in Ruby Talk that made me wonder, I wrote a little program about it to figure it out. Whenever I had a question, I wrote a little program. Whenever... well you get the idea. This is a fair few little examples, covering quite a bit of the basic stuff in Ruby.
Ordinarily I'd keep them to myself, but I feel like in this case they _might_ be of some value to other's who're starting with Ruby, not necessarily as a teaching aid, but more for ideas of things to look up, and examples of using some of the core language features. It's not a reference or tutorial by any stretch, it's just my own little experiments that, if nothing else, might help boost someone's excitement level about how beautiful Ruby is.
So anyway, I posted them at http://roscopeco.co.uk/code/noob/ as my 'Nuby files'. I'll probably keep them up to date intermittently, since I now believe I'll never be done learning Ruby (that's why I removed my L plates, because maybe most of us should have them, all the time ;)) but I can't promise (I'm pretty busy with these projects for now...)
Thanks alot Ross.....Do you mind if I add a link to my n00b blog about Ruby?
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:12:48 -0500, Ross Bamford <rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
Well, I've been playing with Ruby now for a couple of months, and I'm really having a lot of fun, both with the language and the extraordinary community around it (_why, I've not laughed so much in years :)).
Anyway, I learn best by doing, and that's what I've been, uh, doing, with Ruby - Whenever I've seen a question or idea in Ruby Talk that made me wonder, I wrote a little program about it to figure it out. Whenever I had a question, I wrote a little program. Whenever... well you get the idea. This is a fair few little examples, covering quite a bit of the basic stuff in Ruby.
Ordinarily I'd keep them to myself, but I feel like in this case they _might_ be of some value to other's who're starting with Ruby, not necessarily as a teaching aid, but more for ideas of things to look up, and examples of using some of the core language features. It's not a reference or tutorial by any stretch, it's just my own little experiments that, if nothing else, might help boost someone's excitement level about how beautiful Ruby is.
So anyway, I posted them at http://roscopeco.co.uk/code/noob/ as my 'Nuby files'. I'll probably keep them up to date intermittently, since I now believe I'll never be done learning Ruby (that's why I removed my L plates, because maybe most of us should have them, all the time ;)) but I can't promise (I'm pretty busy with these projects for now...)
{cut} It's not a reference or tutorial by any stretch, it's just my own little experiments that, if nothing else, might help boost someone's excitement level about how beautiful Ruby is.
Well, I've been playing with Ruby now for a couple of months, and I'm really having a lot of fun, both with the language and the extraordinary community around it (_why, I've not laughed so much in years :)).
Anyway, I learn best by doing, and that's what I've been, uh, doing, with Ruby - Whenever I've seen a question or idea in Ruby Talk that made me wonder, I wrote a little program about it to figure it out. Whenever I had a question, I wrote a little program. Whenever... well you get the idea. This is a fair few little examples, covering quite a bit of the basic stuff in Ruby.
Ordinarily I'd keep them to myself, but I feel like in this case they _might_ be of some value to other's who're starting with Ruby, not necessarily as a teaching aid, but more for ideas of things to look up, and examples of using some of the core language features. It's not a reference or tutorial by any stretch, it's just my own little experiments that, if nothing else, might help boost someone's excitement level about how beautiful Ruby is.
So anyway, I posted them at http://roscopeco.co.uk/code/noob/ as my 'Nuby files'. I'll probably keep them up to date intermittently, since I now believe I'll never be done learning Ruby (that's why I removed my L plates, because maybe most of us should have them, all the time ;)) but I can't promise (I'm pretty busy with these projects for now...)
