From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T16:38:57+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby and Programming

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?

<snip/>

Question: Is this teaching just the Ruby syntax for assorted constructs, 
or does it also include algorithm analysis and selection, 
speed/memory/resource considerations, application composition and 
design, and other programming concepts?

Put another way, what does "program" mean in the book title, and is it 
what Will means/expects when learning to program?



James
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