From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T09:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Posted my newbie code


On Dec 20, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Ross Bamford wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Well, I've been playing with Ruby now for a couple of months, and  
> I'm really having a lot of fun, both with the language and the  
> extraordinary community around it (_why, I've not laughed so much  
> in years :)).
>
> Anyway, I learn best by doing, and that's what I've been, uh,  
> doing, with Ruby - Whenever I've seen a question or idea in Ruby  
> Talk that made me wonder, I wrote a little program about it to  
> figure it out. Whenever I had a question, I wrote a little program.  
> Whenever... well you get the idea. This is a fair few little  
> examples, covering quite a bit of the basic stuff in Ruby.
>
> Ordinarily I'd keep them to myself, but I feel like in this case  
> they _might_ be of some value to other's who're starting with Ruby,  
> not necessarily as a teaching aid, but more for ideas of things to  
> look up, and examples of using some of the core language features.  
> It's not a reference or tutorial by any stretch, it's just my own  
> little experiments that, if nothing else, might help boost  
> someone's excitement level about how beautiful Ruby is.
>
> So anyway, I posted them at http://roscopeco.co.uk/code/noob/ as my  
> 'Nuby files'. I'll probably keep them up to date intermittently,  
> since I now believe I'll never be done learning Ruby (that's why I  
> removed my L plates, because maybe most of us should have them, all  
> the time ;)) but I can't promise (I'm pretty busy with these  
> projects for now...)
>
> Thanks,
> Ross
>
> -- 
> Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk
>

Very cool Ross.

-Ezra