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Dave thomas' programming the pragmatic programmers' guide, second edition (aka. Pick axe) is an easy read for any level programmer. The book follows a bottom-up approach that ultimately makes perfect sense for a programmer because he knows of to fit t... Read More
It starts with an introduction to how ruby programs work and then goes into an explanation of ruby datatypes and objects. The chapter on the ruby platform is like a condensed api guide to ruby's core library. In a nutshell, it explains how ruby works.... Read More
I think this approach is ultimately more entertaining and makes for a better learning experience than 1000+ pages books full of 2-pages examples, that bores even the most diligent student. With this new book, it's much clearer.
This is a great feat for me because many books are nice the first time through, but are soon obsoleted in completeness and freshness by the online material. each chapter of the book starts with a work of art by why the lucky stiff!
Cons
The formating of the kindle edition leaves much to be desired. The code is horribly formated and wraps lines even in the smaller font sizes. This is not a well organized introduction to ruby that builds logically.
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This book trpl represents a great alternative for those who are not entirely satisfied with the pickaxe as it goes into much mo... Read More
Im not finished with the book yet but its very solid
I really hope it makes a strong showing when it hits the press because after the bangup job flanagan and matz did with the ruby... Read More
All in all its a little disappointing that the ebook isnt formatted to avoid wrapping lines with the sample code but the upgrad... Read More
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The book is sectioned and organized masterfully making topics easy to find and forward and backward references found throughout... Read More
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I needed a concise book on ruby programming language
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This book does suffer from what every programming book on kindle suffers from its hard to read a program on a small screen with word wrapping
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Below is an example of how word wrapping can make code look brokendef examplemethod this is anexample method were we addtwo ints and assign them backexampleint 1 1endthe word wrapped comments are what im getting at here can be very confusing but dont judge this book based on that
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Like the book says in the beginning ruby is not a simple language
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And this book is not a simple book
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It is intended for experienced programmers
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Ruby is still relatively new so there are not a ton of books from which to choose
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