Daniel Carrera wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:42:56AM +0900, anonimous wrote:
> 
>> How long does it take to get a good enough understanding of Ruby to
>> start writing programs?
> 
> About a minute I'd say. :-)
> 
>> What books would you recommend for learning Ruby?
> 
> Well, there is an EXCELLENT tutorial to be found at:
> 
> http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
> 
> It's written by a talented Canadian mathematecian of unparalleled
> humiliity.  For instance, he is so humble that he would never take an
> opportunity like this to promote his own tutorial. ;-)
> 
> Seriously, this tutorial does give you a fine introduction.  And if you
> want more it does have a listing of good Ruby books.

Its a good tutorial for beginners that havn't programmed before, but I have 
already learned java so I end up jumping over a lot of the stuff that looks 
very similar to java. It seems the tutorial is missing some of the section 
on GUI programming, I've never tried TK so It might be interesting but the 
only sub chapter to gui programming is the one where the author explains 
why he chose TK for the tutorial.

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