From: Salai Khine <sayakyi@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T06:23:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Beginner Books

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Dear all,

Thankyou very much for all this information. I think i will start again with
"Learn to programm".
I have been programming in PHP language... but i am still Beginner level. :)
:) :(


regards,

salai.

On 6/13/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:16:49AM +0900, Peter Cooper wrote:
> > On 6/13/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >"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).
> >
> >
> > No, I have not, although I've read a few reviews and got the impression
> it's
> > more of a pragmatic "how to do stuff" book rather than one that
> specifically
> > dives into the whys and wherefores of things like OOP, which the OP
> seemed
> > to be looking for. That said, this is a reasonably uninformed opinion as
> I
> > have not read the book itself. The book certainly sounds commendable
> from a
> > "getting things done" point of view, as the title suggests. I was just
> > picking up on the OP's stress on wanting to learn "OOP concepts"
> explicitly.
>
> Until someone writes a book specifically about OOP that doesn't assume
> previous knowledge of the language, I think something like EDSR's
> approach may be the best for early introduction of OOP for someone that
> doesn't know the language and doesn't know programming very well.  Chris
> Pine's book would be more suitable for someone that doesn't know
> programming *at all*.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> --
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
> it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."
>
>

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