Today I started to discover Ruby. It is a programming language that is meant to be “language” oriented to normal people. You can actually take a 15 minute on-line Ruby tutorial via your browser over here. What a great way to fiddle a bit and see what the syntax looks like.
I do have to honestly say that I found several things about the tutorial very frustrating!
- You must go linear and do just what they say to get to the next step … hit a typo and you a hurting … I wrote the guy and suggested a next button is in order
- In lesson 7 or 8 he has a link that blows away the demo blog programming that you just typed in … and you have to back way up into 7 to get past it
- You actually have to type everything out … how about an autofill … I understand the value of doing, but this got monotonous
- it doesn’t exlain when we use single and when we use double quotes … it doesn’t help you to understand why we are using upper case sometimes and not others, etc.
Still worth a run.
