From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-09-16T15:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How long does it take to complete Ruby

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Samuel Mensah <sasogeek@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been learning and practicing ruby for 2 weeks and a half and I'm
> wondering now as to how much longer it'll take before I complete ruby.
> If definite, please let me know how long it takes to learn ruby on the
> average.
> I also want to finish as early as possible 'cos I want to start with
> ruby on rails as soon as possible.

Well, the answer depends on a lot of factors

- What do you mean by "complete"?  Mastery of anything usually takes
much longer than is needed for sound understanding.
- How much knowledge did you have before about
  - programming in general
  - object oriented programming
  - OOA and OOD
- How much experience do you have in other programming languages?

The way you pose your question makes me assume that it will take you
rather longer to reach your goal than shorter.  A programming language
is in some ways similar to a natural language: you can learn the
vocabulary pretty quickly and easily but the ability to read, write,
understand and speak the language takes considerably more effort.

Kind regards

robert

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