[clue] Good Ruby Tutorial Was: Budding SW Engineers

[Yaverot]

Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for something to learn Ruby?  I know some programming, but I'm no god, I'm not interested in web programming, and I prefer test-driven.


--- dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:

From: dennisjperkins at comcast.net
To: CLUE's mailing list <clue at cluedenver.org>
Subject: Re: [clue] Budding SW Engineers
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:23:43 +0000 (UTC)

You could substitute Ruby for Python. 

If you plan to do systems programming, such as device drivers or kernel work, you want C. 

If you are going to do embedded systems, I think Forth is still used in some of them, due to memory constraints. Not everything has megabytes of memory. 

For systems beyond a certain complexity, you probably want to use an object-oriented language, like C++ or Java. I don't know if functional languages, such as Haskell or Erlang, fit a particular set of problems particularly well. 

You could even use Lisp. It has OO capability now.