New to ruby

Ruby
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Hello all,

I have a years experience developing web applications in java.

I also thought myself Perl scripting.

I am completely new to Ruby and would like to learn and play with Ruby.

I started reading Programming Ruby (pragmatic series) for the past
couple of days and also subscribed with this mailing list.

I have already installed ruby and wrote a bit of code.

Please suggest me if there is anything that would help me learn better.

Cheers,

Ravi

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I’m pretty much a beginner myself, and after you’ve read, and fully
understood ‘The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide’, I’d suggest doing the
Ruby
quiz (www.rubyquiz.com) every week. Experience and practice is the key
to
getting good with the language… I’d imagine.

I think it’s very important that you fully understand the basics, so
make
sure you do.

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Tella, Ravichandra wrote:

Please suggest me if there is anything that would help me learn better.

I’ve been teaching myself ruby over the past 6 months and I’ve found
three things to be extremely helpful:

  1. Being active on ruby-talk. I’ve learned a great deal from people on
    this list and have learned even more trying to answer other’s questions.

  2. Using ruby in my every day life. I find ANY excuse to use ruby, even
    for simple tasks. Small scripts to parse CSV documents, add numbers,
    build reports, anything you can think of.

  3. Visiting www.rubyquiz.com and www.codegolf.com when I run out of
    ideas but I’m in the mood to code.

Hope this helps,
Drew

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Oh, thanks Peter. And thanks to all the Ruby Gurus out here, who made my
Ruby notes possible.

Satish

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Tella, Ravichandra wrote:

I started reading Programming Ruby (pragmatic series) for the past
couple of days and also subscribed with this mailing list.

I have already installed ruby and wrote a bit of code.

Please suggest me if there is anything that would help me learn better.

Hi Ravi,

Welcome!

One problem I experience when learning new languages is that while it’s
easy to plough through a book and feel pretty smart at the end… when
you come to writing code, you start to realize you need to read all that
stuff again a few times until it sinks in.

With that in mind, I’d recommend Satish T.'s bumper collection of
Ruby tutorials that cover similar ground to Programming Ruby but,
naturally, approach things from a slightly different direction. Seeing
it all over again is more likely to get the knowledge to stick :slight_smile: See
http://sitekreator.com/satishtalim/toc.html

Cheers,
Peter C.