There is a beginner's class going to be held this Saturday, 8 September (time to be announced later) in the #rubynoob channel at irc.freenode.net.
I am currently reading Peter Cooper's "Beginning Ruby From Novice to
Professional" from appres. It has been a very funny experience and I have
enjoyed so far, with good examples and simple programming projects that tie
all together and help me make perfect sense of Ruby's ways. Check this book
at My book, “Beginning Ruby”, published today!
Hope it helps.
Luis Fernando Flores Oviedo
Project Management Professional
Mobil: (449) 114 9577
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De: Jörg W Mittag [mailto:Joerg.Mittag@Web.De]
Enviado el: Miércoles, 05 de Septiembre de 2007 09:20
Para: ruby-talk ML
Asunto: Re: Programming Ruby For Newbies
Jonathan Denni wrote:
Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
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 - I strongly recommend this one!
I second that second!
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 (-;
jwm
The class is going to be at 1pm PST (GMT-8:00).
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On 5 Sep 2007, at 21:59, ml-ruby@athensalive.com wrote:
There is a beginner's class going to be held this Saturday, 8 September (time to be announced later) in the #rubynoob channel at irc.freenode.net.
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.
It's good if you can enjoy reading a what you are learning from. You can learn
more and faster if it's some thing you want to do and keep coming back for
more. I remember my introduction to C was so much fun because of its very odd
sense of humour while showing the syntax
And Ruby is a much easier language to start off with.
TerryP.
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Thank you mates.
I tried the interactive ruby tutorial, and it was great. It introduced
me to programmed. Then I read the Learn To Program the tutorial version
by Chris Pine, and it gave me a pretty nice basic introduction about
Ruby and programming. Then I saw the Peter Cooper's _Beginning Ruby_
preview in Apress, and I bought it from my local bookstore the other
day. I am still reading it, and my Ruby skills are improving.
I haven't given _why the lucky stiff's Poigant guide a shot, yet. But I
will, once I finish reading _Beginning Ruby_.
Thanks to:
Phlip
David
Tim Hunter
Mohit Sindhwani
Jonathan Denni
Thomas Wieczorek
7stud
John Joyce
rgossen (Rahlyn)
Jeremy Woertink
Lloyd Linklater (Haha, good one)
Ayyappan K.
Ari Brown
Terry Poulin
Jörg W Mittag (I don't understand your dream, but hopefully I'll do in
the future :-P)
Luis Fernando Flores Oviedo
unknown (Guest) (I'll try to attend the class, thanks for mentioning it)
When I posted this, I didn't expect such prolonged and helpful mailing
list (This is proof to your statement about this mailing list John Joyce
). I really appreciate every single response. I hope that anyone
with a future query like mine will refer to this topic as a compilation
of helpful books.
[CODE]
def thanks people
puts "Thank you " + people
end
helpfulpeople = "Phlip, David, Tim Hunter, Mohit Sindhwani, Jonathan
Denni, Thomas Wieczorek, 7stud, John Joyce, rgossen (Rahlyn), Jeremy
Woertink, Lloyd Linklater, Ayyappan K., Ari Brown, Terry Poulin, Jörg W
Mittag, Luis Fernando Flores Oviedo, and unknown"
thanks helpfulpeople
[/CODE]
*Goes back to reading _Beginning Ruby_*
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