From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T09:17:20+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby and Programming

On Aug 15, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Heath Fashina wrote:

> Hi,
>
>      I am making yet another attempt at learning to program.  I have a
> little experience with QBASIC, RealBASIC, and Actionscript, but I am
> pretty much a novice.
>
> I am working my way through Chris Pine's tutorial but I'm stuck on  
> Procs
> and Blocks.  I'm just not getting the last half of the chapter.
>
> http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
>
> Any guidance or detail explanation would be appreciated

I wrote a blog post on this subject a while back that might at least  
give you another point of view:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/2006/01/05/code-as-a-data-type

Hope it helps.

James Edward Gray II