From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-01-25T09:14:48+09:00
Subject: Re: getting in lots of practice at begginner level.


On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Ian E^n wrote:

> I'd also like to know! However, one thing i've been doing is looking  
> for
> just general programming excersises and trying to translate them  
> over to
> ruby. Some won't work 1:1 but you can find a similar way to do it in
> ruby.

Something that might help is to write stuff that you'll find useful.  
Perhaps look for stuff that you currently do manually and would like  
to automate. I have Ruby scripts that analyze my month's banking  
transactions (available as a CSV file from my online banking account)  
and help me reconcile my statement. I have scripts that tidy up  
temporary files. I have scripts that create HTML fragments from plain- 
text textile files. All these are pretty simple, but I've come to rely  
on them. And having a use for them afterwards makes the learning more  
interesting...


Dave