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  • Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise t

    From Robert Klemme@21:1/5 to Cai Gengyang on Sat Apr 9 20:24:07 2016
    On 08.04.2016 12:29, Cai Gengyang wrote:
    True ... Just completed up to exercise 8 of "Learn Ruby The Hard
    Way". I really like this book by Michael Hartl.

    Please do not mis-attribute: "Learn Ruby the Hard Way" is written by Zed
    Shaw.

    It is really neat and well-designed, very beautiful web interface.
    Guess it is written in Ruby as well ?

    I have yet to see a book written in Ruby.

    robert

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  • From Cai Gengyang@21:1/5 to Robert Klemme on Fri Apr 8 03:29:58 2016
    True ... Just completed up to exercise 8 of "Learn Ruby The Hard Way". I really like this book by Michael Hartl. It is really neat and well-designed, very beautiful web interface. Guess it is written in Ruby as well ?

    On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 12:05:23 AM UTC+8, Robert Klemme wrote:
    On 06.04.2016 14:14, Cai Gengyang wrote:
    Ok finally, I got it to work ! (I realized the key is just to follow
    the steps in the tutorial exactly lol)

    That's what they are usually given for.

    Guess my mind was elsewhere, thinking about my disastrous academic
    career for the past few years and recent visa denial ... can't focus.
    Guess when I REALLY concentrate, I can get things done but my
    attention span is like that of a butterfly, perhaps I suffer from
    some form of ADHD and depression. (sometimes I feel like I am on top
    of the world, sometimes I feel like dirt)

    This is something that needs appropriate treatment - something a
    newsgroup cannot provide.

    Gonna take a break and on to exercise 4 later ! Plan to spend a month
    or two completing "Learn Ruby The Hard Way" and mastering it until it "clicks" in my brain and becomes intuitive and 2nd nature, (just like
    how playing Go is intuitive and 2nd nature to me), then build
    something useful (perhaps a search engine), put it on the internet
    and get users to test it ...

    I'd say it is quite unrealistic to spend two months on any programming language and at the end mastering it and having it become second nature
    - especially when having difficulties to focus. At least it would
    require someone extraordinarily talented or with a lot experience in programming in general (or maybe both).

    Kind regards

    robert

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