From: Chad Perrin Date: 2007-06-13T08:07:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Beginner Books On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:00:19AM +0900, Peter Cooper wrote: > On 6/12/07, Salai Khine 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. "Everyday Scripting with Ruby" doesn't seem to assume any previous experience with (or even knowledge of) OOP. Maybe I should look through it again to see if I missed something. I rather suspect that you just haven't given that one a look (it's still pretty new on the market). What it does assume, though, is a certain amount of familiarity with simple programming, however -- at minimum, having learned some basic concepts of programming from BASIC or Logo in your youth, or perhaps from browsing the programming subreddit a lot. Even DOS batch scripting and shell usage on Unix might qualify you as sufficiently knowledgeable to be able to tackle Everyday Scripting with Ruby, if you're a quick study. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do."