From ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org Thu Dec 15 21:17:47 2005 Received: from kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.24]) by blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id jBFCHkZk016685; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:46 +0900 Received: from funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.201]) by kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B1A5B14; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:47 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost.nagaokaut.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3999F04847; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.1.100]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752CDF04846; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:49 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [210.163.138.100]) by voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB151630028; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:51 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F63A33C83; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:48 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F38933EF5 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:41 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15533-03 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:41 +0900 (JST) Received: from sinus.lauschmusik.de (sinus.lauschmusik.de [213.95.32.201]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59B733ED3 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:40 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.localdomain) by sinus.lauschmusik.de with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ems0j-0004a7-Cm for ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:15:01 +0100 Received: from corp.supernews.com (corp.supernews.com) by sinus.lauschmusik.de with NTTP id 166186 for ; Thu Dec 15 13:15:01 CET 2005 Received: from [unknown] by corp.supernews.com (unknown) with NNTP id 166186 for ; Thu Dec 15 13:15:01 CET 2005 Received: from Usenet via a Usenet to mail gateway located at lauschmusik.de. This service provided as a courtesy to the ruby-talk mailing list. If this message is SPAM, its ultimate origin is Usenet, not this gateway program. All subscribers to the ruby-talk mailing list agree to receive the Usenet postings made to comp.lang.ruby via this gateway. Please see http://www.ruby-lang.org/ruby-talk-usenet-policy.html. Delivered-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:17:41 +0900 Posted: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:15:44 +0000 From: Chris Game Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: [ANN] Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_ To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) Message-Id: References: <1134601217.746672.19760@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <43A0F83A.2000009@hypermetrics.com> X-ML-Name: ruby-talk X-Mail-Count: 18 X-MLServer: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)]; post only (only members can post) X-ML-Info: If you have a question, send e-mail with the body "help" (without quotes) to the address ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org; help= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Original-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Path: noris.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.wiretrip.org!proxad.net!fdn.fr!freenix!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-12!sn-xit-09!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com X-From-Usenet: see Received: header above. X-rubymirror: yes X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on beryllium.ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=7.0 tests=AFAF,BAYES_00, CONTENT_TYPE_PRESENT,DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER, RCVDFRMLOCALIP autolearn=no version=3.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk Lines: 19 List-Id: ruby-talk.ruby-lang.org List-Software: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)] List-Post: List-Owner: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 Hal Fulton wrote: > Let me clarify, though, lest anyone misunderstand -- not all of > these topics will be covered in depth. Depending on time and > pages and so on, some may barely be mentioned. There's more to a book than a list of topics. What about depth, starting point, assumptions of reader ability, reference vs learning model (see Kathy Sierra's blog), inclusion of tutorials, examples, exercises... (Thanks as ever to the random sig generator for an entirely appropriate one...) -- Chris Game "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein