From: Ben Aurel <ben.aurel@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T19:53:33+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm a beginner, where should I go to?

gmail should rename the 'Send' button into 'read again and find typos'
so don't blame me :-)

A little accretion to my post: I asked for the beginner list because I
have the habbit of asking stupid questions. It's often the only way
for me to understand things, but I also want to avoid by any means to
piss people off by 'polluting' 'their' mailinglist.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Ben Aurel <ben.aurel@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> After working with some ruby projects and playing with existing
> sources I decided to finally get my hands dirty. It's an interesting
> experiences with similarities of learning a human language where your
> comprehension skills are far more better than your speaking skills.
> Basically the problem I have that I've written too much excellent ruby
> code, without a deeper knowldedge of what the code really do, but with
> a rather feeling 'that looks terse' vs. 'that looks clunky'.
> Now that I actually begin to write code of my own, I find myself in a
> similar position as somebody after a brainsurgery trying to learn how
> to speak. Its grinding and for every line I write I think for myself
> 'oh god that's probably wrong'.
> So the thing I'm looking for is a mailinglist where I can post my
> pathetic code in order to discuss it with some more experienced
> writers.
> thanks
> ben
>