From: Shashank Date <ADATE@...>
Date: 2002-06-13T21:44:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How to improve my Ruby Skill?

My suggestion, start with :

"Teach yourself Ruby in 21 days " by Mark Slagle (Sams Publishing)

All the other books are very good too.

"Markus Jais" <mjais@web.de> wrote in message
news:rtXN8.1$rq6.693@news.ecrc.de...
> -g3- wrote:
>
> > Hello ,
> >
> > I started working with ruby about 3 month ago.
> >
> > I am not really a programmer,
> > I am searching for a good way to improve my ruby and my
> > programming skill.
> >
> > Can anyone introduce me some good books or sites.
> >
> > thanks,
> > gane
> >
> >
>
> hello
>
> the best way to improve your skill is to program. you can either
> write your own apps or contribute to some open source projects
> in Ruby.
>
> reading other people's code is also a good way to learn.
> check the ruby application archiv, there you will find
> many useful stuff like Ruby/DBI or REXML
>
> I learned something from porting little perl scripts to Ruby.
> I do this sometimes to see how Perl stuff can be done in Ruby or
> Python in order to improve my Ruby and Python skills.
>
>
> some good books are:
> - The Ruby Way, Samspublishing
> - Ruby Developers Guide, Syngress
> - The Ruby Programming language, Addison Wesley
> - The Pragmatic Programmer, same authors as the one before
>    (on of the best programming books ever, does not cover Ruby
>     but has lot of useful stuff for any programmer)
> - Java design patterns workbook, Addison Wesley (have just started this
book
>   but it looks great. the knowlegde you gain there can be applied to Ruby
>   too)
>
> markus