From: Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoertink@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T07:16:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Good learning-by-doing projects?

S淡ren Andersen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm fairly new to ruby coming from some Java.
> I've been reading "The pragmatic programmers guide", which is pretty 
> good.
> But, I always find it's easier to learn the language using it, rather 
> than
> just reading about it. (Naturally...)
> 
> So - what are your favorite "learning-by-doing"-proejcts? Both
> ruby-specific, and generally?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> S淡ren Andersen

Well, my first language was ruby, so I learned it by doing Rails stuff. 
I wanted to make web-sites so I learned that way. I just recently 
started learning Java, and what I have been doing is taking my ruby apps 
and re-doing them in Java. you could try the opposite. I guess it just 
depends on what you want to do with the language, but if your just 
trying to learn it and do what ever, then you could try using hpricot 
and start parsing some websites, or use one of the gui toolkits like 
FXRuby. Have fun!


~Jeremy
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