As I mentioned in my first post, I am a complete and utter newbie when it comes to Ruby. Armed with only a couple of free "Basic Ruby" books I downloaded from Amazon, it took me about a century to figure out how to run a program from my command prompt.
But all that's ancient history (yesterday). Since then, I've put aside the Kindle books and picked up Learn to Program by Chris Pine (it finally came in the mail. Uh oh. This post is turning into an unintentional commercial for Amazon. But that's really not what I want). What I really want, is for this post to turn into a commercial for Learn to Program by Chris Pine. This book is unbelievable.
I've only just completed Chapter 2, but I already love it. Using clear, concise language with a bit of humor thrown in, Chris Pine makes me LOVE to learn Ruby. (I'm not kidding! I really love it!) The explanations are short, but thorough. The program examples he gives are long enough to make the concepts stick in your head, but not too long that you become overwhelmed. I wish I had this book at the start of my journey. But maybe if I did, I wouldn't appreciate this book as much. The picture at the top of the page is of my second successful program, calc.rb (a bunch of exercises at the end of Chapter 2). I was even proud of myself after getting an error message, because I knew how to diagnose it!
So if you're completely new to programming and want to learn Ruby in a painless manner, I highly recommend this book!
'Til next update!
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