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Kenny Xm

Hi I'm 11 years old and love computers, and want to go into programming.
I've tried C, C++, and other languages but their all too hard for me.
I came across Ruby, and thought I'd give it a shot.
Anyone that can recommend any good resources, ebooks, and tutorials?

Any advice is appreciated! :)
 
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Robert Klemme

Hi I'm 11 years old and love computers, and want to go into programming.
I've tried C, C++, and other languages but their all too hard for me.
I came across Ruby, and thought I'd give it a shot.
Anyone that can recommend any good resources, ebooks, and tutorials?

Any advice is appreciated! :)

You can find reference as well as introductory material here:
http://ruby-doc.org/

This might be helpful as well
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

Have fun

robert
 
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Richard Conroy

Hi I'm 11 years old and love computers, and want to go into programming.
I've tried C, C++, and other languages but their all too hard for me.
I came across Ruby, and thought I'd give it a shot.
Anyone that can recommend any good resources, ebooks, and tutorials?

Any advice is appreciated! :)

Hi Kenny,
Chris Pine's 'Learn to Program' book is an excellent read, but you
might also want
to look into Shoes and HacketyHack (hackety.org). These are special versions of
Ruby that are especially designed as a first programming environment.

Not getting ageist or anything, but the primary goal was to make programming
accessible for kids. Its a refreshingly simple way of programming for
30 somethings
also ...
 
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Albert Schlef

Kenny said:
Hi I'm 11 years old and love computers, and want to go into programming.
I've tried C, C++, and other languages but their all too hard for me.
I came across Ruby, and thought I'd give it a shot.
Anyone that can recommend any good resources, ebooks, and tutorials?


Kenny,

As an alternative to Ruby (which I'm not sure is a good choice for young
newcomers), check out "Alice". Its homepage says "An education software
that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment".

http://www.alice.org/
 
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Albert Schlef

Albert said:
As an alternative to Ruby (which I'm not sure is a good choice for young
newcomers), check out "Alice" [...]

But it's not that I'm familiar with Alice. In fact, I've just searched
their site and I can't find any juicy piece of source code. It doesn't
bode well because it suggests the people there aren't really into the
"religion".
 
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Kenny Xm

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into Chris Pine's tutorial.
(BTW Alice looks too awkward, looks like some version of game maker with
better 3d capabilities. Oh, how I hate GM...)

I'm going to start with the tutorial Robert and Richard suggested.
Any additional resources appreciated! :)
 
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Robert Klemme

2009/1/22 Kenny Xm said:
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into Chris Pine's tutorial.
(BTW Alice looks too awkward, looks like some version of game maker with
better 3d capabilities. Oh, how I hate GM...)

I'm going to start with the tutorial Robert and Richard suggested.
Any additional resources appreciated! :)

Don't get lost in too much reading. Try to implement something small
that you can imagine useful for you or at least try out things in IRB.
Having said that the Ruby quiz might give you an interesting
collection of "tasks" (or rather problems to solve) in case you cannot
see anything useful for you and it has the added benefit that you can
look at other solutions.

Kind regards

robert
 

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