From: Alexander York <s.disparu@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T03:47:07+09:00
Subject: Just starting out, where do I go from here?

This is my first experience with any kind of programming language.

I purchased The Pragmatic Programmers Guide (for Ruby) aka "Pickaxe."
I started to read through it, but found it dived in a bit too deep
initially; making references to perl and not fully explaining the
construction of the first example program, regardless of the
aforementioned it looks to be a great guide for someone with a little
more experience than myself.

Ruby-lang.org led me to Chris Pine's tutorial which was excellent for
someone who knows nothing, but I can't find anything that picks up where
he leaves off that carries that same style and in depth teaching.

Where I have interest in going with Ruby

-Screen scraping eBay for specific products/information
-(unrelated but need help finding this)Image recognition software
-Web based management for screen scraping and storing of data/pdf
creation of auctions

could anyone point me in the right direction, maybe any articles on this
stuff? I know of scrAPI and Ruby on Rails, but I am new and do need
direction.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,
Alex

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