From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T05:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: free pdf ebook

On Mar 22, 3:37 pm, "Martin DeMello" <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/23/07, Giles Bowkett <gil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The first edition of Programming Ruby is available free, extremely
> > good, very popular, and easy to find. The Sams book isn't free, is
> > obviously hard to find, and very probably sucks. Stealing Sams when
> > you can get Programming Ruby for free is like holding up a liquor
> > store when you already have a great job.
>
> Actually, reviews of the Sams book that I've seen have been uniformly
> enthusisatic.
>
> martin

Back when it first came out I used the Sams book and found it to be a
great intro to Ruby. Even after moving on to The Ruby Way, Programming
Ruby, and others I still look back on the Sams book as an effective
intro. A lot of the other languages that Sams books cover fall into
that realm too. Without exhaustive technical details the Sams Teach
Yourself Ruby book splits up the basic syntax and concepts into easy
to digest portions.