From: Chris Gernon <kabigon@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T02:09:55+09:00
Subject: Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice)

Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> To be fair, the PickAxe was never intended to be a "Learning Ruby"
> book, as much as a "Programming Ruby" book.  For a ground-up book on
> learning to programm using Ruby, I'd recommend Chris Pine's.

"Programming Ruby" is a great, great book, but it is basically the 
equivalent of O'Reilly's "Programming Perl" - more of a reference than a 
learning tool. What the community really needs now is a Ruby equivalent 
of "Learning Perl", which is one of the best guides to learning a 
programming language I've ever seen. A book to get you started before 
you move up to the Pickaxe, just like the Llama prepares you for the 
Camel. (The Rock Hammer?)

How is "Learn to Program" for learning Ruby? I got the impression that 
it was aimed at people who had never done any programming before, as 
opposed to "Learning Perl", which is intended for otherwise experienced 
programmers who have simply never encountered Perl.

Chris

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