Re: still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game

On Sep 21, 2012, at 6:09 PM 9/21/12, Henry Maddocks <[e-mail]> =
wrote:

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> On 21/09/2012, at 10:01 PM, Sebastjan H. wrote:
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>> I've just bought the pickaxe 1.9 and I'll start there.
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> If you are going to learn ruby then you should have a copy of the =
PickAxe, but the issues I pointed out weren't specifically Ruby issues, =
more algorithm and object oriented design issues. Unfortunately OOD =
books tend to be a bit dry. The best way to become better at OOD is to =
look at good OO code and write lots of code yourself.
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> Henry
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I don't want to disagree with Henry, but there are a couple of resources =
for OO design that are quite useful. The first is the "Design PAtterns =
in Ruby" book. It keeps the design patterns pretty short with concrete =
implementations, so it's a lot better than the classic gang of four =
book.

Second is the current Clean Coders video series by Bob Martin. Each =
episode is about 12 bucks, and they're really pretty awesome. They kind =
of build on each other, though, so you can end up spending a fair bit.

James=