Looking for best tutorial for someone brand new to this type of programming

[Andante]

I've had years and years of experience with programming, but it's all been with the old Excel macro language. I can make it do back-flips, but I've never had a need to learn any of the more modern languages.

 

I now have a great reason to learn Ruby on Rails, and would like to find a tutorial. I'm hoping I can pick it up without too much trouble, since I'm technical and know programming well (just not this type).

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks for your input!

 

[Colin Law]

railstutorial.org is good and is free to use online.

Colin

[Joel Pearson]

If you're coming from VBA you'll probably need to brush up on your
Object Oriented Programming as well.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_object_oriented.htm

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[Andante]

No, I'm actually not coming from VBA. I've been using the original Excel macro language that's even older.

But since it is not object-oriented, I need to wrap my head around that as well.

 

Thanks to you both for the ideas. Any others out there?

[Dave Aronson]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Andante <evenyou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any others out there?

There are others around, but railstutorial.org is pretty much the
standard. It's kept up to date pretty well, and teaches you a good
bit more than enough Ruby to do Rails stuff, plus good habits like
testing. It being *free* on the web is icing on the cake.

I've never heard it evaluated from the POV of someone who didn't know
*any* general-purpose programming language before, though, so who
knows. Let us know how it goes.

-Dave

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