[clue] Good Ruby Tutorial Was: Budding SW Engineers

[David L. Willson]

Software Freedom Society will be doing two "Ruby Newbie Drops" with Lorin Ricker in June.

Saturday, June 16th, 10am to 5pm at DenHac
and
Saturday, June 30th, at LeaderQuest

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David L. Willson
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Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)

This is a good time for a r3volution.

----- Original Message -----
> The "Pragmatic Programmer" publishers have "Programming Ruby 1.9",
> which
> seems to fit your bill.  They also have a similar JRuby book.
> 
> On 05/07/2012 01:31 PM, Yaverot wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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