From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-01-03T01:02:05+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby and Programming

I concur. The table of contents seems to list the skills you need in the order 
you need them. Looks like a good book, and from the sample chapter I read, 
well written.

One more thing. Whenever I need to learn a new technology, here's the learning 
method I use:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/rl.htm#flowchart

SteveT

On Monday 02 January 2006 02:31 am, J. Ryan Sobol wrote:
> 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