From: Michael Mueller <muellerix@...>
Date: 2003-03-25T16:22:11+09:00
Subject: Re: What kind of book is PickAxe?

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> - Tutorial  (e.g. _Learn_Ruby_in_21_days_)
> - Reference (e.g. _Ruby_in_a_Nutshell_)
> - Cookbook  (e.g. _The_Ruby_Way_ )

I'd say that it's a mixture of the first to categories, but it defenitely
isn't a cookbook.
It's kinda obvious if you look at the TOC... First part tutorial (although
the tutorial has some kind of different "trails", which I like a lot).

I also used the reference-part a lot - although while I'm getting more used
to "Ruby in a Nutshell" I use it a bit less often than before.
For the latter book it took me some time (and a couple of postits= to get
used to it cause the classes aren't in alphabetical order.

My 0,02�
Michael