From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-06-14T21:17:58+09:00
Subject: Re: What was YOUR first Ruby Project

Hi --

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Eric Hegwer wrote:

> I though it be cool to hear what your first experience with Ruby was.
> Was it a job, or just a fun (cough, cough)  side project that you
> decided to take on?

I think my first non-tiny Ruby program was an implementation of the
word game Jotto. This would have been in November 2000; I had just
discovered Ruby, via the newly-published pickaxe, early that month.

> For me, Ruby is my entrance to the world of programming.  My first and
> only computer class was as a HS sophomore in 1986.
>
> And as for my first project, I'm fighting my way through a fourm
> tutorial written for 1.6 (I'm riding 2.02).

I can't quite map those version numbers consistently to either Ruby or
Rails, but would I be right in guessing that your project is a Rails
project?


David

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