From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T13:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby Way

I'm just getting started on Ruby.  Would you recommend I wait a while
before reading "The Ruby Way"?

I don't like buying "newbie books" even when I'm a newbie.  I find that I
exhaust those books very quickly.  Where as with an expert book, even if I
read everything, I can keep comming back to it later on.

Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days sounds like a "newbie book".  Would you
agree with that?

Thanks for the help.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assisant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mark Wilson wrote:

> I bought it a couple of days ago.  I've been working my way through it
> and like it very much.  I started with the pickaxe book and really
> liked that (I still use it on a daily basis).  Then I bought Teach
> Yourself Ruby in 21 Days, which is also a very good book.  The Ruby Way
> is more advanced than Teach Yourself Ruby and very different from the
> pickaxe book (you can learn from both).  Unfortunately, I was
> disappointed with the book Making Use of Ruby, which I cannot recommend.
>
> On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 10:48 PM, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:39, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> >> What do people think of "The Ruby Way"?
> >> Would that be a good book to buy?
> >
> > I think it's a great book!
> >
> > I believe the pickaxe book is the best place to start, but once you've
> > been
> > writing Ruby code for a while, TRW is the next book that's really worth
> > grabbing (Matz's book is also helpful, as a good desk reference).
> >
> >> Is there a book homepage?  I can't find it in Google.
> >
> > There is, but I can't remember where it lives.
> >
> > H.
> >
> >
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