From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T21:18:43+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

Your in luck! The book's online!

Just do a google search for 'Chris Pine +"learn to program"'
On Jul 12, 2007, at 10:26 PM, Joe Wiltrout wrote:

> John Joyce wrote:
>> That's a tall order!!
>> You might want to start with Chris Pine's 'Learning to Program' then
>> move to Peter Cooper's 'Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional'.
>> Peter does a pretty cool intro with a text-adventure program, so you
>> can get your feet wet with the kinds of things that you'll face
>> programming games.
>
> I sorta have no money to use on books and the like. I was hoping I  
> could
> avoid buying anything by consulting the greater population of Ruby
> programmers. Maybe get someone to post a link to a good website that
> dumbs the tutorials down enough for me to understand. And who knows?
> Maybe I will get good enough that I will be able to go over to C++ and
> not be this stupid. But I have heard that text-based games are  
> easier to
> make than games with moving graphics, so I might start off with a Sky
> Pirate text-based game instead. It all depends whats easiest for a
> beginner.
>
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>

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~ Ari
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