From: Ben Branders <ben.branders@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T21:06:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

I'm a relative new user to Ruby, and to programming in general. A long
while ago, I programmed in BASIC. I also tried a bit C and Pascal, but
nothing big, always those little calculator programs.

Last year, I tried Ruby and I really, really liked it. But even after
reading 10 tutorials and the PickAxe book (online), I still don't
understand it.

I think Ruby lacks a good beginners guide. A guide that explains what
OO-programming is and how you can do it in Ruby. A guide that explains
everything with very simple programs, from A-Z.

Every guide/tutorial that I encountered was too difficult for a beginner
to follow, certainly if you have no OO experience (or programming
experience for that matter). All the existing documentation is written for
people who have already programmed in Python, Perl, ... . I didn't program
Python or Perl, so I don't have anything to compare with. I just want to
learn Ruby.

There is a big group of wannabee programmers out there, and a
beginnersguide would be a good introduction for them. It's much easier to
convince a new programmer to use Ruby, than to convince a Python-user to
convert to Ruby. ;-)



Regards
-- 
Ben Branders                       http://bytewarrior.madoka.be

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