The San Francisco Ruby Meetup Group

Book Club: Beginner Rubyists Edition!

December 12, 2012 · 6:30 PM
Indiegogo Annex

What better way to get a head start on that anticipated new year's resolution to learn Ruby with the San Francisco Ruby Meetup Group?

1. Read Learn to Program (all chapters), by Chris Pine, a beginner-friendly book with the SF Ruby Book Club!

This book is available for free online. A paper version is also available. We receive discounts through O'Reilly, see details.

2. Supplemental/Optional: Learn Ruby the Hard Way by Zed Shaw, also beginner-friendly, with exercises!

Also available for free online, and as ebooks.

Read as much as you can!

Agenda
6:45 -- Intros
7:00 -- Discuss!

Details

Our group discussions page at GoodReads!

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Elle

Congrats to the raffle winners who won the following ebook bundles!

Ruby Pocket Reference -- Anna
Learning Rails 3 -- Debbie, Nan

0 · December 13
- Elle
  
  .. from our sponsor, O'Reilly!
  
  0 · December 13
Anna

Great discussion and great group of people!

1 · December 12
MJ

Work beckons! I won't be able to make this one!

0 · December 12
Isa Herico

Hi Elle, hi book club. Hope all is well with you during this holiday season. I am running a bit behind on our reading schedule...I'd love to continue on & attend this meeting, but I do not want to hold space if waitlisters are ready & eager to contribute their thoughts. If I don't see any of you soon, I will see you next year. If you see me running about SF, please say hi! Best Holiday Wishes to you all, Isa

0 · December 10
- Elle
  
  Thanks for the note and being considerate! I encourage you to still attend if you've read some of the book and have the time to swing by. As you know, there are always no-shows.
  
  1 · December 11
Elle

Questions to consider while reading the book + doing exercises, for discussion:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/...

0 · November 16
Elle

I've added a supplemental book for those who might want more challenge/exercises !

Supplemental: Learn Ruby the Hard Way by Zed Shaw, also beginner-friendly, with exercises!

Also available for free online, and as ebooks:
http://ruby.learncodethehardway...
http://ruby.learncodethehardway...

0 · November 14
Carina

Is the 12/12 date a typo? How come we're starting way off in December?

0 · September 18
- Elle
  
  no, not a typo. i wanted to at least reserve one december date and set aside something 'lighter'(?) to meet about for december. new rubyists can have a lot of time to ease into ruby over the upcoming holidays, starting anytime between now and some time before the meetup as desired. since there's bound to be some attendance overlap between book meetups, i want to give people some breathing room between books.
  
  0 · September 18
Elle

i've set up a group (discussion board) page at goodreads,
http://www.goodreads.com/group/...

thinking this would be a cleaner+nicer way to have book-specific discussions. please choose the 'Learn to Program' folder when creating new topics for this meetup.

0 · September 18