From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T05:49:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Pickaxe

Weren't you a contributor ?

Stuart

On 7/7/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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