From: Ben Aurel <ben.aurel@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T20:47:41+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm a beginner, where should I go to?

> so post away!

on workingwithrails.com your authority level is 50% and the popularity
level is 96% so I guess I must believe you :-)

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.cheung@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
>>
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