From: "Al Abut - alabut.com" <alabut@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T13:49:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby newbie: 3 week learning project

Hey Dan, yeah, that's rad, we should definitely hook up! Let's see how
much interest I can build up from this blogging series and maybe we can
even start it up sooner, have a nice cozy Ruby user group waiting for
you before you get here :)

And yeah, the Dave Thomas book looks great and I already have a
reference to it in the blog post under future things to dig into. I'm
already a big fan of his work, "Journeyman to Master" really helped me
advance my Actionscripting skills, I just didn't think it would work on
this project, since I had the idea of blogging out the progress on a
learning project that had a set and regular timeline (like the "Rails
In Four Days" PDF as well) rather than having to take a book and
haphazardly chop it up by how long I think it'll take me. I'm a newbie,
I don't know how long something will take by the very definition of
"newbie"!

Plus I figure that it's more of a natural progress to go from initially
learning a language to moving on to mastering the advanced concepts.
And although I appreciate their advice, I've noticed that the people
recommending "Pragmatic Programming" tend to already be advanced
programmers in more complicated languages who are "stepping down" to
Ruby, rather than designers like myself that are climbing the other way
up the tree and adding programming arrows to their quiver.

Al Abut
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