From: Mike Rhodes <rhodes553@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T23:13:53+09:00
Subject: Recommendations (Ruby making my head swim)

I recently bought "Programming Ruby" and set out to learn the language 
through sheer force of will and determination, but I have to admit that 
I just can't keep up... I'm way behind the book conceptually. As a 
self-taught programmer with no computer science background, where 
should I turn to "prelearn" ruby? I have taught myself shell scripting 
and AWK, but I have no background in larger programming concepts. I am 
considering the book mentioned in "Programming Ruby" ("Object Oriented 
Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer) but that seems like a lot to 
absorb just to get started with a new programming language. Any 
thoughts?

Thanks,
Mike