Beginning Ruby

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1. intertextualityApr 2019
   I believe I started with Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper. I liked The Well Grounded Rubyist and I've heard Eloquent Ruby is also good. Design Patterns in Ruby is less about ruby and more about design patterns, but still a good read.

   I learned a lot about Rails from Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial book.

   I learned the most through doing, though. I would work on building my own website and looked up anything I didn't know.

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2. coledubzMar 2014
   Start with Ruby, build some command line apps. Make a chess/checkers/other complicated game to cement in object oriented programming. Move to Rails. Learn some SQL(sqlzoo is probably enough). Rails has a lot of magic, if something seems magical learn what it does until it is no longer magical. After that, add some javascript/jQuery to your rails apps. Once you feel comfortable with that move onto a frontend framework like Backbone or Angular.

   http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice-Professional-Exp... this is a good book for the Ruby path.

   http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ This is the go-to rails tutorial. But beware that he doesn't explain things in super fine detail, so if Hartl tells you to do something that you don't understand stop and do some research on whats happening. Expect to spend a day or two on each chapter.

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3. trustfundbabyMar 2013
   I wouldn't recommend that to start tbh. Its a great book to get a deep understanding of how Ruby works, but as an intro, I think it could be a bit overwhelming and hard to get through.

   I would recommend in this order

   1. Beginning Ruby (From Novice to Professional)

   2. Eloquent Ruby ... then

   3. The Well Grounded Rubyist

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4. sparknlaunchJun 2012
   Uh, another good post on sharing the joy/pain of learning Ruby. Thanks for sharing.

   I have spent the past three weeks getting my head into Ruby (on the hopeful way to understanding Rails). With so many different languages and stacks, it makes the early stages extremely daunting for a beginner.

   I have found comfort in the following resources:

   1) The only website I found that actually visualized how everything sits together: http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/

   2) I persevered with a Ruby programming book: Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (by Peter Cooper)

   3) Spent a few days on a zero install Ruby tutorial: http://tryruby.org

   I plan to write some blog posts on the journey however may wait until I get passed the basics before sharing too much.

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5. mhartlApr 2012
   If you're finding the programming challenging, I recommend Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper.
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6. telemachosSep 2011
   For tutorial/walkthrough with lots of example small scripts Beginning Ruby, 2nd ed by Peter Cooper. For a straight reference The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto. A middle-ground (tutorial first half; reference second half): Programming Ruby 1.9 (aka, the Pickaxe Book) by Dave Thomas.

   A great second book (maybe even first if you're comfortable enough learning basic syntax on your own) is Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen.

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