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| Book: | Learning Ruby | |
| Subject: | Read the description and you'll get what you want from this book | |
| Date: | 2008-01-31 18:25:03 | |
| From: | Matt Polito | |
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Rating:
 
Learning Ruby is exactly what the title says. This book offers a great 'introduction' to Ruby as a fun, powerful language. Now I would say that as a Ruby user, I'm not quite advanced but not really a beginner. I would have to say that this book is definitely catered to someone very new to the Ruby world. The books author, Michael Fitzgerald, uses a very easy to read style of writing that, to me, made this read far easier than a normal technical book. He uses this same easy to follow/read style in Ruby Pocket Reference (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514815/?CMP=AK) and Learning XSLT (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxslt/index.html) as well. Inside you will find small easy to digest chapters that give a quick explanation on what you'll need to know such as: blocks, arrays, loops, functions. The basic stuff that will lay the groundwork. I believe that the books description may be the most accurate depiction of this book. It does not lie about it's intent. Going in you will know that this is a book that will show you how to get started and really primes you for other more in-depth books (The Ruby Way). Personally I didn't really understand why at the end of the book you get an extremely brief introduction to Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org) . The only reason I think is because on the cover you get a tagline of 'The Language That Powers Rails.' So they kind of needed to put something in there. That is really the only grief I found with the book. While doing some searching for other reviews of this book... I found that many people didn't like it, but I truly believe that those people may have already been using Ruby for a bit. Then of course this book would seem like a waste. It is what it is and that's a beginner's introduction. Rated: *** out of 5 |
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