----------------------------------- haskell Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:11 am Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- This is a gem of a resource. Very entertaining, http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ ----------------------------------- rdrake Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:51 am RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- One of the funniest ways to learn a language :-). ----------------------------------- haskell Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:37 pm RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- Thats why its a successful piece of material. I would strongly recommend using it at the Grade School level, and I would even go so far as to recommend it to CompSci Majors and just Computer people everywhere... It really gets rid of the flaws of the drawn out books of olde, and really takes the really good aspects of the O'Reilly and Pragmatic books we all know and love and pushes them to inspire. ----------------------------------- CodeMonkey2000 Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:43 pm RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- Hahaha, I might actually switch to Ruby. ----------------------------------- PaulButler Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:09 pm Re: RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- Hahaha, I might actually switch to Ruby. Why not learn both? ----------------------------------- rizzix Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:57 pm Re: RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- It really gets rid of the flaws of the drawn out books of olde, and really takes the really good aspects of the O'Reilly and Pragmatic books we all know and love and pushes them to inspire. Meh, not all of us are interested in comic/story books. ----------------------------------- haskell Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:03 pm Re: Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- Its not that which is the most appealing. It is the light hearted humour that allows one to continue to breeze through it. Of course, I still have plenty of the other books. From AI and Cs Theory to Assembly books. Its just nice to see something different. ----------------------------------- wtd Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:55 pm RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- This is why I try to keep my writing light-hearted. ----------------------------------- MrHippo Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:13 pm RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- I like it :) Wonder if he drew the foxes himself... Course I'll have to delve deeper into it to learn more advanced stuff and probably gonna have to challenge myself to apply the problems, but that's part of the fun I suppose hehe.. -MrHippo ----------------------------------- apomb Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:00 am Re: Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- I'm quite enjoying it... i waded in ruby before, but never really was serious about it. But this summer, im planning on applying to the Lottery Corp. HQ in my home town, and at my last interview they were pretty interested in Ruby, so im going to try and wow them with some knowledge of It. ----------------------------------- wtd Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:22 pm RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- Understand blocks. Understand metaprogramming to at least some extent. ----------------------------------- apomb Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:15 pm Re: Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- will do, wtd, thanks! ----------------------------------- michaelp Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:24 pm RE:Why\'s Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- This is a fun guide, good way to learn a language. :) ----------------------------------- andang Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:48 pm Re: Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies] ----------------------------------- what an effort to write the guide book..