From: Patrick Erinn <drakmire@...>
Date: 2007-07-21T14:18:55+09:00
Subject: Entry-level help

Hellos,

I'm not sure how detailed I should make my situation here.  I had some
long, history-spanning essay on what I'm doing, but that seemed tedious
to read through.  Basically, what it said was:  I'm a pretty big newbie,
both to Ruby and programming in general (just a couple courses in Java
in college a couple years ago), looking to break into the field (and out
of soul-killing tech support).  I'm giving myself projects to keep the
learning interesting (since I have no teachers) but my current one seems
like it could go a number of ways.

I want to write a basic simulation (predator/prey) that has a simple GUI
that I can display using a website, using Ruby for the number crunching,
JS for the application GUI and HTML to handle whatever else on the page
(or something...I hear of terms like XHTML, XML and AJAX thrown around,
but I don't have a firm grasp on them)

I'm just coding in Windows, but would like the simulation to be visible
to any member of the public who visits the website that contains it
(with no user interaction at first, just a display to everyone watching
what's happening).  Is it feasible for this project to use all three
without needing to convert Ruby to JS, or would the project really just
end up being in Javascript and whatever markup language the page would
need?

Thanks for any advice you all can give!

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