From: Fily Salas Date: 2011-03-22T10:12:12+09:00 Subject: Re: The best practices to learn Ruby Thank a lot Gregory Brown for the good info. >What kind of work do you do day to day? >Can you think of a way that some software could improve your daily life? >If your hands are tied at work, what are your hobbies? >Is there a way you can write programs to support those activities? Well, I work full time as a Mechanical Engineer with 3D CAD programs like SolidWorks, but my big hobbies are design and create web sites, I love to code HTML, CSS, jQuery and Actionscript 3.0 by hand even though I'm not an expert on any of these languages I feel confortable using them. Now that I started reading your reply I think you are 100% correct when you say that practice is the real key since I feel like reading and reading can help but its easy to forget what you read if you dont put it in practice. It looks like I was at first thinking about programming as programs with GUI and never thought about scripting. Can you some how interact with programs like Word, Excel or any other known program or you need to have access to the core files, which of course is out of my reach? Sorry if my question doesn't make any sense but believe it or not I'm learning a lot in this forum, you guys are awesome! Thank you all very much for your help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.