From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T10:25:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Good learning-by-doing projects?


On Oct 29, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote:

> On Oct 29, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Søren 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?
>
> Learning by doing is good. So is reading the code others have  
> written. I, too, recommend Ruby Quiz as a source of both projects  
> to do and code to browse.
>
> <http://www.rubyquiz.com/index.html>

Depending on how new you are to programming (as i am/was), try  
starting out with FizzBuzz and Twisting a Rope.

The rope one was especially fun!

Ari
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