From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T06:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Pickaxe

Thanks James, I have Learn to Program and have been using it but
thought I'd diversify a bit in between those incredibly difficult
programming challenges in Chris Pine's book.  For me Learning to
Program is a great book primarily because of the exercises.  I wish
more books had assignments in them.  I came to Ruby after checking out
Rails at first and wish that a book like Agile Web Development had
some exercises to allow newbs to get their feet wet.  I've always
found the "tutorial/working through building an application" approach
to be limited in some ways, just my personal taste I guess.

Stuart

Stuart

On 7/8/06, James Herdman <james.herdman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
>