From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2009-09-24T15:06:25+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby, New to Programming.


From: "Christopher Dicely" <cmdicely@gmail.com>
>
> (2) Get things to try to do that are more involved than "Hello World",
> but where what you need to do is fairly well defined; some of the
> quizzes from the various incarnations of Ruby Quiz work for this --
> and there are some similar things on the web that aren't Ruby
> specific; if you can find descriptions of basic algorithms (Wikipedia
> is a decent enough starting point for these), implementing them in the
> language you are trying to learn can help you get a feel for the
> language,

For example,this site holds the first 156 quizzes: http://rubyquiz.com/
(there are a couple other subsequent ruby quiz sites - I'm not sure
what number we're up to now.)

Examples of quizzes that might be suitable for beginners:
(Warning, if you scroll down too far on the page, you will see the
solutions listed!)

http://rubyquiz.com/quiz14.html  LCD numbers
http://rubyquiz.com/quiz22.html  Roman Numerals
http://rubyquiz.com/quiz121.html  Morse Code
http://rubyquiz.com/quiz15.html Animal Quiz
http://rubyquiz.com/quiz80.html  Dungeon Generation

etc.


Hope this helps,

Bill