From: Tim.Hunter@...
Date: 2002-08-16T21:36:33+09:00
Subject: Re: A few newbie questions...

IMHO, the online version of the PickAxe is most useful as a supplement
to a printed copy, if only because printed books are so darn handy. Go
down to B&N, Borders, amazon, where ever, buy the book and consider it
an investment..

Also IMHO, your 2nd Ruby book should be Hal Fulton's _The Ruby Way_.

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:27:37 GMT, "Gavin Sinclair"
<gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:

>In defence of Dave/Andy/OnlinePickAxe, I have learned Ruby from the ground
>up using Matz's Ruby in a Nutshell (book), OnlinePickAxe, and ri
>(astoundingly beautiful command-line reference into OnlinePickAxe
>material).  Like everyone else, I notice that OnlinePickAxe/ri "suffers"
>from not being able to trace down page references or view figures, but
>this is just not a big deal.  I'm not sure why, but it's just not a big
>deal.  I can always find the information I need, and that's not because
>I'm very experienced in Ruby - I'm not.
>
>Given a free language with free third-party documentation, we're doing
>very well indeed.
>
>Cheers,
>Gavin
>