From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T20:13:28+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm a beginner, where should I go to?


On 12 Aug 2008, at 11:53, Ben Aurel wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Hi Ben,

There isn't a beginners list, so post away! There's some talk about  
whether or not one should be created, but nothing concrete has  
happened yet.

Fred

> 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
>>
>