From: Nate Imaqaguy Date: 2006-08-09T08:12:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Here you go.... Woops; nevermind. I just noticed the date of the original post. You're probably like a pro now. Nate Imaqaguy wrote: > I think this is exactly what you're looking for: The Little Book of > Ruby. > > http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Little-Book-Of-Ruby > > It's free and comes with code examples. You can read along and open the > rb files to see how it works, as you go along. It's pretty cool. I > haven't coded anything for 5 or 6 years since my last few programing > classes. It helped me a lot. Even with the examples, there's a lot for > a newb to chew off, so it will still be a challenge. > > -nate > > > > > RJ Melton wrote: >> I've been struggling through the pickaxe book for the last week or so, >> but >> I'm pretty new to programming and a lot of the >> ideas are new to me, so I've been having trouble making them stick. As I >> finish sections or chapters I try to make a >> script of some sort to use whatever has just been covered, but I usually >> can't come up with ideas that cover enough >> different things without being too broad or ambitious. Is there any sort >> of >> problem set or something for learning ruby? >> I'm preferably looking for something online as I already bought the >> pickaxe >> book and I'm on what we call the "starving >> college student" budget. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.