From: "Jörg W Mittag" <Joerg.Mittag@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T23:20:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming Ruby For Newbies

Jonathan Denni wrote:
> Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
>> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>>> You should check out Chris Pine's book "Learn to Program", which is an
>>> intro to programming that uses Ruby to teach you.
>>>
>>> http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
>> I agree - I strongly recommend this one!
> I second that second!
> 
> Ruby is my first language as well, and Chris Pine's book was essential!
> Buy it.  It's worth it.

My personal dream book is "Learn to Pragmatically Program Ruby for
Rails, Head First (with Foxes)" by Chris Pine, Dave Thomas, David
Black, Kathy Sierra and _why the lucky stiff, but I doubt that will
ever get written (-;

jwm