From: "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T16:31:07+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby and Programming

Seems like this book is a good match for you.  And the price is right  
too: $20 for a paper back, $13 for the PDF version, or $25 for both.

Also, the "Pickaxe" book is pretty much the standard for learning  
Ruby.  I'm not sure if its at the appropriate level for you, but the  
first edition is freely available online.  http://www.rubycentral.com/ 
book/

~ ryan ~


On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:47 AM, J. Ryan Sobol wrote:

> Sounds like your at the cusp of a new and exciting thing, so I want  
> to give you the best advice I can.
>
> Here's the table of contents from the book "Learning To Program"  
> that Ed Borasky suggested in a previous post. (http:// 
> www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_ltp/)  Just by glancing at  
> the chapter titles, which of them seem new, familiar, and old news  
> to you in terms of your past programming experience?
>
> 1. Getting Started
> 2. Numbers
> 3. Letters
> 4. Variables and Assignment
> 5. Mixing It Up
> 6. More about Methods
> 7. Flow Control
> 8. Arrays and Iterators
> 9. Writing Your Own Methods
> 10. There's Nothing New to Learn in Chapter 10
> 11 Reading and Writing, Saving and Loading, Yin and...
> 12. New Classes of Objects
> 13. Creating New Classes, Changing Existing Ones
> 14. Blocks and Procs
>
> ~ ryan ~
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:30 AM, Will Shattuck wrote:
>
>> On 1/1/06, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can you list and describe the programs you've developed in the past?
>>> Were they school related or side projects for fun or for profit?
>>>
>>> ~ ryan ~
>>>
>>
>> Well... that's just it.  I haven't developed anything really.  I have
>> done some web programming with PHP, but that has usually consisted of
>> modifying someone else's work.  So basically nothing :(  That's why I
>> wanted to start with Ruby.  I noticed that I can cut out many  
>> lines of
>> code by using Ruby so I figured it would be a good start.
>>
>> Will
>>
>
>