[BioRuby] Fw: books to learn Ruby

[Rob Syme]

There is an good list of (free) books up at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books

The ruby section includes two that I would recommend,
http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/book/
and of course _why's poignant guide, which as John points out, might not be
as helpful in this instance
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

I'm sure there is enough there to get the student started.

-r

Hi all,

I just find that I've recieved the following mail in may mailer's
spam folder. Sorry for responsing too late.

Unfortunately, I know little about books written in English about
learning Ruby. Could someone please recommend some books?

Naohisa Goto
ng at bioruby.org / ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp

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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:31:29 +0530
From: <**********@gmail.com>
To: staff at bioruby.org
Subject: Please Help

Dear Ruby Admin,
I love to learn RUBY..I'm novice,
Basically from a Bioinformatics Background.

I wanted to know few things on Ruby..
1.How should I start learning RUBY, Any basic books you can suggest me?
2.How do I install BioRuby in my Windows PC ?

Please help me !
Thanks
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