From: Juozas Gaigalas <juozas@...>
Date: 2006-11-18T02:11:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Nuby transition through "suck" stage??

Thomas Luedeke wrote:
> I once read that in learning Ruby, there is a "suck" stage where it is 
> difficult to accomplish much of anything, followed by a "Wow" stage 
> where the Ruby Nuby "sees the light".
>
> Any hints/suggestions by you Ruby pros for me to expedite my flounder 
> through the "suck" stage, and achieve the Nirvana of "Wow"?  I'm 
> historically a Unix scripter, haven't spent a lot of time on languages 
> like Perl or Python, and am finding the transition to Ruby rather 
> painful.  Any areas to concentrate on??
>
> TPL
>
>   
I started learning Ruby after  two years of programming experience in 
C++ and Java and as I remember it was quite painful - largely because I 
was so used to static typing. As a unix scripter you might need to get 
comfortable with objected oriented programming. For that you will need 
to read "Programming Ruby." I also recommend that you become intimate 
with every method of Array, String and (to a lesser degree) Hash. 
Somewhere half-way to that point I went "wow." Not to say that got me 
anywhere close to "pro" :)


Juozas Gaigalas