From: Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T12:19:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Good learning-by-doing projects?

On 10/29/07, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com> wrote:
>
> 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!

If you liked the rope one, you should try the current one - editing
text.   I haven't seen any solutions, yet.   A "rope" could even be
used to solve it...

Eric