From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T03:08:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendations (Ruby making my head swim)

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This brings up what I think is currently somewhat of a gap in the 
literature.  Most of the books on OO out there use Java or C++ for their 
examples.  I recently heard of a design patterns in C# book.  Wouldn't 
it be great to have a tutorial that introduced OO gently to its readers 
using ruby code examples?

Carl

Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:

>On Wed, 12 May 2004 10:10:19 -0400, Mike Rhodes wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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
>>    
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>There is a nice tutorial for nonprogrammers at
><http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/>
>You can probably skip the first chapters, since you
>already know some programming.
>I think Ruby is the best way to learn Object Oriented
>programming, because you can see how it works for yourself, 
>rather than banging some abstract terminology in you head.
>(I haven't read this book though).
>
>Regards,
>
>Kristof
>

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