From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T03:09:18+09:00
Subject: Re: On motivating a Ruby nubie

On 4/13/05, Sy <sy1235@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all.  I wanted to dive into a topic that's been on my mind for
> years.  I've been interested in programming for a very long time and
> yet somehow I've only ever dabbled.
> 
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> ---
> 
> And so after a lot of thought I ended up looking seriously at Ruby.
> Lots of time passed and I revisited the subject to learn that a
> community had self-organized, that issues with documentation and such
> were being solved, that entertaining tutorials were being written
> (props to wtls on that one).
> 
> Fine.  I like Ruby.  I want to learn Ruby.  How do I work on the
> problem of motivation?

Why do you want to learn Ruby?  Why do you want to learn to program?