From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T20:31:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a Ruby tutorial for Java programmer

On 4/15/05, Kevin <816168@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I am new to here. I have been using Java for 5 years,
> before that, did a few small projects in perl (web site, shopping cart,
> things like that).
> 
> Now I wish to learn something new and decided I should pick up a new
> language. I have looked around for sometime. Recently I read a basic
> introduction on Python , it's a feature by feature comparison with
> Java, and this writing style really got my attention and it helped my
> understanding of  the stuff in python. I also looked Groovy, pnut, but
> I want to get to know Ruby a little bit before choosing one to
> concentrate on. I am sure there are lots of excellent ruby tutorials,
> Just curious if there is one specifically geared at java programmer. If
> not, I will still study ruby using available tutorials.
> 
> Most of my works are of back end of commercial web sites, things like
> database access, web services, networking, search engine, both Windows
> and non windows platform. For projects in these fields, between ruby
> and python, which one should I learn? I appreciate your information and
> suggestions. Thanks in advance.
> 

Here's what I did.

I read picaxe I at a leisurly pace. As they introduced a new concept,
I added a similar example of its use to my learning.rb file. By the
end of the book that one file was pretty big.

I wrote some programs, starting of with reading a file and matching a
pattern against a line ( grep ), then moving onto more complex stuff
like reading a DBase file and an SMTP proxy for analysing email.

Writing code is the best way to learn, and lucky for us C/C++/Java
types Ruby isn't "Too Wierd" a language, not like them crazy style
languages like Haskell, Scheme and SmallTalk  :-)




 

> Kevin
> 
> 


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