seebs
5/11/2007 8:25:00 PM
In message <d01526d7035b2827ab3f7d3f6a058241@ruby-forum.com>, Concours writes:
>1) Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open
>Source)
>2) Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers)
>I believe book #2 is referred to as the "pickaxe" in the Rails
>community?
No. The "pickaxe" is the book with a pickaxe on the cover, titled
"Programming Ruby".
>Have I made a good choice on materials, or are there some
>other books I should be looking into?
I took Programming Ruby out to lunch twice, wrote a couple of test programs,
and that was enough to get me started.
>As a brief background, I've been developing websites and web
>applications for the past 8 years (primarily in the ASP environment). I
>have a good grasp on OO programming, but havenâ??t really gotten any one
>particular language under my belt.
Might as well start here as anywhere. I am very fond of the Pickaxe, and
recommend it as a good example of what a programming book should be like.
-s