From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-01-21T12:36:08+09:00
Subject: Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice)

Hi --

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Tom Allison wrote:

> Well, I don't have that exact background but I've always found books like the 
> typical "21 days" and "dummies" are mostly useless.  no pain, no gain...  :)

I wrote three of the "days" in "Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days", and I
went out of my way to make them excruciatingly painful, so you can
safely read it :-)

But seriously... that book did get a lot of "not a typical book of its
genre" remarks, for which I take a mini-bow but mostly give a big nod
to Mark Slagell, the chief author.


David

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