From: Otto Dydakt Date: 2011-11-20T14:05:08+09:00 Subject: Re: How to run a program (Newbie) Thank you ToMaTo and Jeremy. Jeremy your explaination worked. I copied my folder "programs" into C:\Users\Otto and from the command prompt: C:\Users\Otto> I typed cd programs and then typed "ruby calc.rb" and it returned 3!!! Yay I ran my first program. I would LOVE any suggestions for "teach yourself to program" people with no background in coding. Currently I'm using "Learn To Program, 2nd Edition" by Chris Pine. It's from The Pragmatic Programmer's series and was recommended to me by a friend. The thing that is annoying to me is that this stuff isn't hard - but the book should tell you specifically where to create the programs directory. And it doesn't. I put it on my desktop, which seems to be why I was getting errors all night last night... Anyhow thank you guys for helping me learn. I really appreciate it. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.