On Tuesday 10 July 2007 17:36, John Carter wrote: > Good News Everyone.... > > Fendalton library has (hence every ChCh library has access to) Hal Fulton's > "The Ruby Way" http://rubyhacker.com/coralbook/ > > and "Best of Ruby Quiz" > http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_quiz/ > > > While I wouldn't recommended either for someone just starting with the > very basics of Ruby, they both will definitely help you to master it.
"Learn to Program" by Chris Pine, The Facets of Ruby Series, at the Sumner Library. Recommended for someone who's unfamiliar with what constitutes programming, but is eager to learn. > > If you waste time on sudoku's and the like, the Ruby Quiz book is for you. > > I found that since I have been using Ruby for years now, most of the > first half of The Ruby Way held very few surprises for me. However, > the second half introduced a number of the more powerful and handy > ruby libraries around. > > If you are fairly new to ruby, this book will certainly help you grok > some of the really handy idioms of ruby. > > > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
