Jules Copeland wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm teaching myself RoR, and I've found myself on this forum a fair few > times when looking for solutions to problems.
Hello, friend. Stay a while, and listen. (Diablo I) > > I've also found many other sites with help forums and tutorials as well. > > This may seem like a petulant request, but please for the love of all > things holy, can people stop using foo and bar in code demos and > tutorials please? I sense a soul in search of answers. (Diablo I) > > It may be because I'm very new to this and I have to work through every > step one by one, but I can't help being reminded of those IQ test > questions e.g: > > "All Blobs are Zweezils, and some Zweezils are BoingBoings, does this > mean all Blobs are BoingsBoings?" > > I'm guessing the nerdier among you felt the need to figure that one out. Wrong - everybody figured that one out as soon as they read it. (Me) > > Using Foo and Bar, just seems to add another level of mental processing > to go through before you can start grasping the concepts of what's being > explained. That's interesting; I just tweeted a link to a really, really interesting article about programming and thinking: http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/ Do read it all. I hope you find it enlightening. Consider "Foo" and "Bar" to be like scrubbing the floor and painting the fence in the movie "The Karate Kid". Reading them is tricky at first, but when you get used to them, you have learned a skill, whether you realize it or not. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
