From: oinkoink <oinkoink+unet@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T03:36:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity


Ben Branders wrote:
> 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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