On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Johnny Morrice <spoon / killersmurf.com>wrote: > > Please let me know how to practice basic Ruby? What type of > > applications you wrote to practice and what topics you consider > > important before jumping to Rails? > > Can't help with rails but here are a couple of fun ideas: > > 1. A tiny text-based game using the socket library (networked hunt the > wumpus?) Using the network is pretty easy in ruby if you are used to > doing it via the operating system. > > 2. Text-mode mandelbrot fractal. Easy if you were to only use one > character. > > Damnit now I want to code these things. > > Cheers > Johnny > > lol, did you read the "Land of Lisp", too?