From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T08:05:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Learn how to program

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Thomas Wieczorek
<wieczo.yo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>  Yeah, start with Java or C#, you will be in heaven when you get back to Ruby ;)
>  Fun aside, I think Ruby is a good language to get started. You don't
>  have to create too much boilerplate code, you can solve a simple
>  problem simply and the community is awesome. Nearly all questions on
>  the list here are answered quite quickly. There's no "Eww, a n00b!"
>

Another great side of Ruby is that it embraces different programming
paradigms. You can start out with procedural programming,enjoy the
power of object-oriented techniques and you can use functional ideas
to solve your problems.
_why's Poignat Guide showed me how much fun it is: it's a comic, it's
a novel, it's a book to teach you programming, it's a lot of fun!
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/