From: Raju Gandhi Date: 2008-12-10T06:34:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Completely new programmer lacks direction Another good place to start would be "Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer" - http://bit.ly/BvOb Lots of great ideas for starting a mini project of your own. Also, look into Ruby Quiz... Hope this helps. Raju On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:23 PM, timr wrote: > > On Dec 9, 10:18 am, Cameron Carroll wrote: > > Hi. I recently picked up a beginning ruby book, having only lightly > > touched python and HLA before jumping into this, and I really lack the > > vision needed to form any programs. It's sort of a combination of not > > quite having a strong enough grasp over the language and its functions > > crossed against having absolutely no idea what kind of programs I want > > to write. > > So I'm just wondering what all of your first types of programs were... > > simple, no doubt, but I'm just looking for a starting point. > > > > Thank you! :) > > Cameron > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > My first program moving from Perl to Ruby was a program that colors > regular expression hits in text files and outputs to the terminal, > like a colored egrep command. My second program was a spelling word > quiz program for my son using Mac os x and the say command and a SQL > database to hold the words. Sometimes, I code simple programs to > calculate something I have calculated to see if I am right. For > instance what is the probability of rolling a Yatzee (6 of a kind) in > the game Yatzee. The answer is (1/6)^5 by the way. Adding a histogram > of the number of rolls required to get a Yatzee by 10,000 observers > makes the task more interesting. Stuff like that. I would suggest > getting the RUBY cookbook from O'rielly. They have lots of example > tasks and the code to accomplish it. You can easilly read it a few > pages at a time. > Tim > -- Raju