April 13, 2005
Featured Area Update
Since it figured so heavily in the solution I described in my previous entry, I thought I'd update the featured area part of my site to point to the Pragmatic Programmers, Programming Ruby 2nd Edition.
I highly recommend this book for those who want to learn and who want to use Ruby. It features a good tutorial/introduction to the language, and a great reference. The 2nd edition is much more comprehensive than the first edition and includes topics not found there (e.g. Rails, Gems, and Rake to name a few).
Finally, one of my favorite things about this book is that you can buy it dead tree or pdf (I bought both). If you are curious about Ruby, this is the best place to start IMHO.
Posted by wcaputo at April 13, 2005 03:49 PMJust wanted to give another view here, I am learning Ruby but doing it as part of Al Abut's interesting blogging project http://alabut.com/nonsense where he's learning Ruby and blogging about it the same time. The time period is set for 21 days and as a result, the book that he chose was "Sam's learn ruby in 21 days" by Mark Slagell. I was a bit skeptical at first since this books is supposed to be for the programming newbie but I have to say I am extremely pleased with it. The author is funny, very knowledgeable about programming in general, makes the learning fun and the best part is that we can say that we have had a good tour of Ruby in a set time period of 21 days. I highly recommend this book even for any seasoned non-Ruby programmer that wants to get into Ruby.
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