Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby[For Ruby Newbies]

[haskell]

This is a gem of a resource. Very entertaining,

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

[rdrake]

One of the funniest ways to learn a language .

[haskell]

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]

Hahaha, I might actually switch to Ruby.

[PaulButler]

CodeMonkey2000 @ Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:43 pm wrote:

Hahaha, I might actually switch to Ruby.

Why not learn both?

[rizzix]

haskell @ Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:37 pm wrote:

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]

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]

This is why I try to keep my writing light-hearted.

[MrHippo]

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]

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]

Understand blocks. Understand metaprogramming to at least some extent.

[apomb]

will do, wtd, thanks!

[michaelp]

This is a fun guide, good way to learn a language.

[andang]

what an effort to write the guide book..