From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-07-24T01:34:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Good exercises for beginner

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Sam Haskins <sam.haskins@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am an unexperienced programer, and though things like why's guide and
> other tutorials do a good job of explaining syntax, I am trying to develop
> experience in making real projects. I have tried to do the ruby quizzes, but
> they are a bit too hard; I don't yet have a great feel for the best way to
> approach problems, and so I ended up having to consult how other people
> solved the quizzes to get over stuck points.
>
> Are there simpler exercises out there that would be good for a noob like me,
> or do you think that reading code for a while might do better for
> familiarizing me with technique?

I wrote http://zem.novylen.net/ruby/tutorial/arithmetic-quiz/arith.html
to be a good learning project. It's intended as a followup to Chris
Pine's excellent http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/, so if you haven't
done that one already go through it first.

martin