From: Josh Vaughn Date: 2011-08-13T01:12:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Online tutor for Ruby --0-1754489296-1313165153=:97454 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, I am not a teacher as I am learning Ruby myself, but if you have no prior programming skills then you need to start from learning Object Oriented Programming (OOP) as this can be harder to learn (for some) than learning Ruby itself. Ruby is a pretty expressive language and is easy to pickup, but hard to master. For example: ary = [1,2,3,4,5] ary.each { |item| puts item } This is very basic and simply says create an array of 1,2,3,4,5 and then the each method says "for each item in the array do something" what that something to be done is inside the "block" (a bit more advanced but not to much). My point is it reads pretty well. Now the harder part can be the OOP and if you don't understand it you will be lost in Ruby as it is 100% OOP. That is even a number is an object so one can do things like 1.to_s which will give you "1" unlike Java (another OOP language) where 1 is 1 or a basic element of the language. Thanks Josh >________________________________ >From: T J Pereira <tj5155@tm.net.my> >To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org> >Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 12:00 AM >Subject: Online tutor for Ruby > >I am finding it difficult to apply the RUBY program. Its because i have >no prior knowledge in any programming language. I have gone through lots >of online tutorials, read books etc..but still cant get the program to >do what i want it to do for my work as a teacher. I am prepared to pay >for a online tutor who can teach me according to what i need to do. Its >more like project based learning. With some hands on training i will >sure be able to learn it. Anyone interested. Tq > >-- >Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --0-1754489296-1313165153=:97454--