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to be honest, this is a just ok book. For ROR beginners, stick with Micheal's tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
Thanks, would it be possible to get it in MOBI format. (I have bad experience converting coding books in calibre)
second this - I would like all my books to be readable on the computer, phone and the kindle. PDF is really bad for this and would really prefer .mobi
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The information wants to be free! Great books which do not need registration based shilling techniques for your hacking careers: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html http://htdp.org/ https://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/ Open and Free FTW!
Not a single one of those are even remotely relevant to this discussion, other than the fact that they aren't behind a contact information 'paywall'.
to be honest, this is a just ok book. For ROR beginners, stick with Micheal's tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
Git repositories, test driven development, etc are all things a beginner doesn't care about and doesn't really need to know about when starting out.
Daniel, how far will you go with TDD on this book? What resource will you recommend to continue learning TDD after the intro in this book? Will you consider writing another book in the same spirit as this one (for beginners & kept up-to-date) for rails with TDD?
TDD is one of the big issues in the pedagogy of teaching Rails. Teach it from the start (Hartl)? Ignore it (most lightweight intros)? Or find a way to introduce it without intimidating beginners? My approach (in a forthcoming chapter) is to encourage testing literacy, that is, to show beginners how to read test code and run tests, so they will be prepared for further study. Michael Hartl's book is good to read after…
I use Python/Django and thinking of learning Rails, preferably with TDD. Thanks for the list, I'm sure it will be useful!
PS. I backed your campaign.
to be honest, this is a just ok book. For ROR beginners, stick with Micheal's tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
to be honest, this is a just ok book. For ROR beginners, stick with Micheal's tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
Disagree, tried to get my brother to learn Rails using this tutorial and got stuck configuring Git and his remote Github repository. It introduces waaaaay too much information that a beginner doesn't really care about. Git repositories, test driven development, etc are all things a beginner doesn't care about and doesn't really need to know about when starting out.
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Not a single one of those are even remotely relevant to this discussion, other than the fact that they aren't behind a contact information 'paywall'.
I think it's relevant Heres some more: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/ http://rubymonk.com/ http://ruby-kickstart.com/ http://railsforzombies.org/ http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=459