From: James Herdman <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T03:29:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Pickaxe

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There's a good book by the same company, and available online, called "Learn
to Program".  Perhaps you might want to skim through it before you dive into
the Pickaxe book?  You can find "Learn to Program" here >>
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

I hope this helps a little.

James H

On 7/7/06, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 ?
>
> TIA
> Stuart
>
>

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