From: Wayne Brisette <wbrisett@...>
Date: 2011-12-21T02:15:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting my programming/Ruby adventure some words of wisdom please

I don't know where Peter's book stands in the print world. He gave us copies of 
it in PDF when I took an online course with him a few months back. He had 
updated quite a bit of it at that point, but that PDF didn't match the printed 
book I had. 

A good place a lot of people start is Chris Pine's Learning to Program. although 
I don't think that has been updated to include a lot of the 1.9 things either. 
But if you're really new to programming, I would start with Chris' book and then 
start looking around. There are a lot of great blogs and resources setup by 
folks http://www.rubyinside.com/ is a site Peter Cooper helps run (or does run, 
I can't quite tell), which contains a lot of great resources, but there are many 
others as well. 

Wayne