From: A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@...>
Date: 2001-07-19T20:49:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18109] Re: Looking for Ruby programming exercises

At 05:07 PM 7/19/01 +0900, Wayne Vucenic spewed forth:
>I've been learning Ruby, mostly with the Pickaxe book, and it's going
>well.
>
>But I realize that what I really need are some Ruby programming
>exercises... the kind that often appear at the end of each chapter
>in a beginning programming book.  Such exercises can (usually)
>be solved with a short program, and they illustrate some particular
>feature or technique in the language.
>
>I haven't seen anything like this for Ruby.  (Just now I searched the
>entire archives of this mailing list for "exercise", but didn't find
>any references to what I'm looking for.)
>
>Are there any exercises like this?
>
>Thanks!!!
>
>Wayne

I must admit I feel/felt the same way.

Although you could look at it differently and say that the exercises are 
the ones you haven't made up yet :)

Seriously, I can think of any number of 'toy' programming problems.

Like the "bottles of beer" thing just posted, or maybe an iterator that 
iterates through the days of week - the list is endless.

-Chris