[ruby-talk:4659] Re: Ruby tutorials for newbie

Kevin Liang wrote:

> I've tried searching around for tutorials on ruby, but I haven't
> found much besides the Ruby/GTK+ one.  Can someone direct me to
> where I could find some, esp if its aimed at newer programmers?

Section 1.2 of the RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ (posted a few days ago, and copied in
below) had info about this (and is archived at):

    http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/4596

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RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby!  (Revised 2000-08-27)
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1.2 Where can I find out more about Ruby?

    Ruby's home web site:

        http://www.ruby-lang.org/en (Ruby English language home page.)

            Follow the links to documentation, downloads, the Ruby
            application archive, the Ruby mail list archives, and lots
            of other interesting information.

        http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/whats.html (Ruby feature list.)

    Ruby FAQ:

        http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/

    Ruby User's Guide (introductory tutorial):    <<<<========####

        http://www.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~gotoken/ruby/
        (Look under "Documents" heading.)

    Ruby Reference Manual:

        http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/doc.html

    Ruby classes, modules, and methods reference:

        http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/

    English language Ruby books:

        Some English-language Ruby books are in the works; the ones
        mentioned in comp.lang.ruby to date are:

            "Ruby Specification"
            by Yukihiro Matsumoto
            Addison Wesley, 2001

            "Programming Ruby, A Pragmatic Guide"
            by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt
            Addison Wesley, October, 2000

                (Part of this book is already on the Internet; see
                http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ -- this is going to be
                a great, "absolutely must have", best-of-breed book.)
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Conrad Schneiker
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