Howdy there,
I have always been interested in programming. I looked for books, but it
treated me like a pro. Please let me state now: I have not done any
programming before.
I looked around, and Ruby seems most appealing to me, so I picked it as
a first language; my mother tongue.
Now what do I want? I am looking for a programming Ruby for dummies, for
those who haven't type a single command line in their lifetime. Now I
tried to read Programming Ruby, commonly called The Pickaxe, but again,
the reader was treated as the book's subject aficionado.
To sum up my rambling in one sentence: I want a programming ruby guide
for dummies.
I'm not asking for you to do my simple search on the net, I'm asking for
your recommendation or referrals.
Now what do I want? I am looking for a programming Ruby for dummies, for
those who haven't type a single command line in their lifetime. Now I
tried to read Programming Ruby, commonly called The Pickaxe, but again,
the reader was treated as the book's subject aficionado.
Books are so Last Millenium.
Try a website where you are coached to write Ruby code:
Howdy there,
I have always been interested in programming. I looked for books, but it
treated me like a pro. Please let me state now: I have not done any
programming before.
I looked around, and Ruby seems most appealing to me, so I picked it as
a first language; my mother tongue.
Now what do I want? I am looking for a programming Ruby for dummies, for
those who haven't type a single command line in their lifetime. Now I
tried to read Programming Ruby, commonly called The Pickaxe, but again,
the reader was treated as the book's subject aficionado.
To sum up my rambling in one sentence: I want a programming ruby guide
for dummies.
I'm not asking for you to do my simple search on the net, I'm asking for
your recommendation or referrals.
You should check out Chris Pine's book "Learn to Program", which is an
intro to programming that uses Ruby to teach you.
Howdy there,
I have always been interested in programming. I looked for books, but it
treated me like a pro. Please let me state now: I have not done any
programming before.
I looked around, and Ruby seems most appealing to me, so I picked it as
a first language; my mother tongue.
Now what do I want? I am looking for a programming Ruby for dummies, for
those who haven't type a single command line in their lifetime. Now I
tried to read Programming Ruby, commonly called The Pickaxe, but again,
the reader was treated as the book's subject aficionado.
To sum up my rambling in one sentence: I want a programming ruby guide
for dummies.
Check out Peter Cooper's _Beginning_Ruby_, from Apress.
I really love why's guide: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ It woke the
interest for Ruby in me and kept me digging deeper in it. I love the
cartoons and the crazy sidebars
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2007/9/4, Jin Dynasty <jin.the.miner@gmail.com>:
Now what do I want? I am looking for a programming Ruby for dummies, for
those who haven't type a single command line in their lifetime. Now I
tried to read Programming Ruby, commonly called The Pickaxe, but again,
the reader was treated as the book's subject aficionado.
I am also a Ruby and programming newb, and I have bought countless
books. I would recommend that you start with Chris Pine's "Learn to
Program." From there, I would go with David Black's "Ruby for Rails,"
particularly if you plan to get into Rails. Other responses mentioned
Peter Cooper's "Beginning Ruby" and I found that to be a good book as
well.
Howdy there,
I have always been interested in programming. I looked for books, but it
treated me like a pro. Please let me state now: I have not done any
programming before.
I looked around, and Ruby seems most appealing to me, so I picked it as
a first language; my mother tongue.
Now what do I want? I am looking for a programming Ruby for dummies, for
those who haven't type a single command line in their lifetime. Now I
tried to read Programming Ruby, commonly called The Pickaxe, but again,
the reader was treated as the book's subject aficionado.
To sum up my rambling in one sentence: I want a programming ruby guide
for dummies.
I'm not asking for you to do my simple search on the net, I'm asking for
your recommendation or referrals.
Thanks in advanced,
Jin
"You should check out Chris Pine's book "Learn to Program", which is an
intro to programming that uses Ruby to teach you.
I agree with David, this was the first programming book I ever read. You
will want to read it twice though. I was in the same boat you were in. I
hate reading, and it takes me a while to understand some of these
things. He has you do small examples in the book and gives you small
tests. If you make it through completely 1 time through, then start back
at the beginning like it's your first time through, and you will catch
so much you missed the first time.
Howdy there,
I have always been interested in programming. I looked for books, but it
treated me like a pro. Please let me state now: I have not done any
programming before.
I looked around, and Ruby seems most appealing to me, so I picked it as
a first language; my mother tongue.
Now what do I want? I am looking for a programming Ruby for dummies, for
those who haven't type a single command line in their lifetime. Now I
tried to read Programming Ruby, commonly called The Pickaxe, but again,
the reader was treated as the book's subject aficionado.
To sum up my rambling in one sentence: I want a programming ruby guide
for dummies.
I'm not asking for you to do my simple search on the net, I'm asking for
your recommendation or referrals.
You should check out Chris Pine's book "Learn to Program", which is an
intro to programming that uses Ruby to teach you.
The Pickaxe is best as a reference or a starting point for experienced programmers, but indispensible as a reference book for Ruby.
Chris Pine's "Learning to Program" is excellent for anyone completely new to programming.
After that, Peter Cooper's book, Beginning Ruby, From Novice to Professional, might not make you professional (that's the Apress series subtitle, but it will take you on a tour of lots of things you can do with Ruby.
This mailing list is also definitely the right place for questions.
Ah, there's also a book form of why's guide, but I can't find the shop
right now.
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2007/9/4, Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@googlemail.com>:
I really love why's guide: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ It woke the
interest for Ruby in me and kept me digging deeper in it. I love the
cartoons and the crazy sidebars
I agree, it's a very good starting point. Many books teach you about the
language but not about Programming. I think I've learned more about Languages
from books and more about Programming from Code and Wikipedia. Some thing like
that web site is going to be very good for you.
You might also look to get a decent book on learning to program, that while
expecting you to know a bit of programming. Doesn't expect you to know jack
about Ruby. Generally I like O'Reilly books such as Learning Perl. Once you're
further along in learning, you will value having such a book and not having to
get one later (or skip all together).
I started off with the Ruby Users Guide and started playing with irb when I
decided to learn Ruby.
TerryP.
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Like all books, many publishers' quality varies within a series from title to title though the covers look similar.
Luckily, with Ruby, almost all the books are very very good.
If you want to learn Rails at some point, you want to get the book from Sitepoint or the Friends of Ed book. They're both pretty good to people new at programming and new at Ruby and new at web applications.
David Black's book is excellent for it's incredible and unique Ruby insights, but it's approach to Rails is a bit out of date. That said, it's still a very good book that should be in your Ruby library. It's just too bad that the middle section dedicated to Ruby isn't rewritten and bound as a purely Ruby book.
You'll see his posts here FREQUENTLY. David's posts are always worth reading, no matter what you're doing with Ruby.
But you will see a whole host of names of people who post here regularly that also have lots of insight and are very helpful.
Don't hesitate to visit the web sites of books and their authors. Ruby and Rails authors are nice people and will actually respond to you and try to help you if they can.
If you don't like reading things online (like me),
you can also get it in book form. It's got a couple edits, but mostly it's the same and has excellent paper quality.
Plus, the book reads like an awesome conversation.
Ari
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Nietzsche is my copilot
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On Sep 4, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Terry Poulin wrote:
I'm not asking for you to do my simple search on the net, I'm asking for
your recommendation or referrals.
You should check out Chris Pine's book "Learn to Program", which is an
intro to programming that uses Ruby to teach you.
If you don't like reading things online (like me),
you can also get it in book form. It's got a couple edits, but mostly it's the same and has excellent paper quality.
By "Chris Pine's book" I meant... Chris Pine's book There's a link
to it on that page, along with the online tutorial version which I
forgot to mention.
Ruby is my first language as well, and Chris Pine's book was essential!
Buy it. It's worth it.
My personal dream book is "Learn to Pragmatically Program Ruby for
Rails, Head First (with Foxes)" by Chris Pine, Dave Thomas, David
Black, Kathy Sierra and _why the lucky stiff, but I doubt that will
ever get written (-;
There's a link