On Dec 28, 2005, at 9:02 AM, ssmoot / gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks for the well thought out and thought-provoking reply!
>
>>> In teaching these reluctant learners, I would work from the known  
>>> to the
>>> unknown -- a standard technique for teachers.
>
> This is great advice and I'll be sure to give it a lot more
> consideration.
>
>>> These people have probably been hammering C for years
>
> This is my fault for not being very clear. Actually the target  
> audience
> is an ASP/VBScript programmer, and a SQL developer who has focused on
> Microsoft SQL Server 2000's DTS package development for the past few
> years.
>
> The mandate is that something is going to change. C# is up for
> evaluation. Having done a lot of C#, used NHibernate, Aspect#,  
> ASP.NET,
> went to MonoRail, and then to Ruby and Rails, I'm very pro-Ruby.
> Technically I suppose anything is up for evaluation, so we could throw
> Java in the mix, but I don't see much reason to muddy the waters.
>
> Naturally the more tools available the better IMO, and I plan to  
> use C,
> C++, C#, etc in the future, but I'm trying to make a focused effort
> here and keep it simple.
>
>


Hey-

	I wrote a very simple primer for ruby blocks for iterators and how  
yield works with a method for some people at sitepoint.com. It might  
be of interest:   http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php? 
t=329378

Cheers-
-Ezra