From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T13:05:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as a first language

Some of the programs I wrote to learn ruby (though I have sigificant 
Java and C++ experience):

A command line stopwatch program when I needed to time something. Added 
start/mark/stop. Then I added comments to each. Then persistence or 
results with yaml. Logging with log4r. Testing with Test/Unit. Passing 
commands from the command line (e.g. to start timing on startup). I 
think I also ended up with a list of 40 features I wanted to add. It was 
a pleasant learning program that ended up with far more features then I 
would have guessed, and I think it would make a good intro/fun project.

For writing, I wrote a jnl.rb that creates a journal entry template with 
today's date and then opens it in vi.   That's slowly extending into a 
PIM, with parseopts for command line parsing and options for using 
different editors, adding an entry from the command line (--entry "blah 
blah blah"), and so on. I think this would be a good learning program as 
well.

Regards,
Nick

Martin DeMello wrote:

>What are some of the 'fun' things someone just getting into programming
>(as a hobby) could do with Ruby?
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>martin
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