From: "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T21:57:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Free eBook: The Little Book of Ruby

On Saturday 17 June 2006 13:41, Huw Collingbourne wrote:
> This is an eBook for newcomers to Ruby: it contains 10 chapters and
> comes with full source code. It's available for free download from
> http://www.sapphiresteel.com/

I haven't really delved in to the content much, but the first thing that hits 
me is the typeface used for code examples - Comic Sans MS or something 
similar. I dislike this sort of typeface anyway, but when it's used as a code 
example (which would normally be given in some monospace typeface), it's 
especially jarring. At first glance, it looks like a fairly solid tutorial to 
get people up to speed with the basics.

Flicking through, I couldn't see any mention of regular expressions. An 
explanation of regular expression syntax is outside of the scope of this 
tutorial, but it should be noted that /regex/ is a standard type. Perhaps I 
missed it.

I think the Moving On... section at the end should link to ruby-doc.org, and 
in my opinion ruby.outertrack.com. Once you know the basics, the API 
documentation provide a lot of useful information. Perhaps mention 
Programming Ruby as a book that looks at some more advanced ruby programming 
techniques?

Just some initial thoughts. I'd get very excited over this if it was CC or 
GFDL licensed, but it's not something I'd want to start an argument about.

Regards,
Alex