From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T05:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Pickaxe

2006/7/7, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com>:
> I've been reading the pickaxe book the last few days.  As a newbie to
> both Ruby and programming I have to say it's packed with an incredible
> amount of information.  I'm still in part 1 and just going through the
> section on Regular Expressions. I find this section in particular to
> be quite a challenge.
>
> Two questions then:
> Is the book more of a reference, read through and always come back too ?
> Is is a good idea to have a project started at some point , perhaps
> after the first section ?

Yeah, your intuition is probably right. It's not exactly an
introduction to programming in general - although those can also be
found on the web ("learning to program" etc.).  And I definitively use
it as reference quite often.

Cheers

robert

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