From: Peter Cooper <peter@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T08:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Beginner Books

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On 6/12/07, Salai Khine <sayakyi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I want to learn Ruby Programming language. I found many book for Ruby. But
> i
> dont know which book is the right one for me (Beginner Level). I want to
> learn OOP Concepts with RUBY.


I wouldn't be doing my job right if I weren't to recommend, simply..

Beginning Ruby by, er, me.
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Professional-Peter-Cooper/dp/1590597664/

Some of the other recommendations are very good, but only Chris Pine's
"Learn to Program" book is the other one suitable for total newcomers to
OOP. The other books assume prior OOP knowledge to a certain extent (which
is why Beginning Ruby was written in the first place). "Learn to Program" is
particularly useful if you are very new to programming overall (not just
OOP). "Beginning Ruby" is more useful if you have a rough idea of what's
involved (such as if you've done a little BASIC, HTML, or any other form of
structural data processing) and just want to learn Ruby. The Pickaxe would
then be worth moving onto as a reference and The Ruby Way as an exploration
into more advanced concepts once you're up to speed.

Cheers,
Peter Cooper
http://www.rubyinside.com/

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