Re: [MLUG] good intro to programming for a teenager?

[Jeremy Hinegardner <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:43:53AM -0500, Mark Rages wrote:
> Ruby is as good a language as Python, probably better.  I would still
> choose Python for a beginner, because it comes with a lot of libraries
> bundled, so you can do interesting things without downloading and
> installing extra packages.

I'll have to nit pick here.  Ruby comes with a fine standard library.
One view of it is : http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/
http, ftp, mail, webserver, yaml, etc.  Its all included.

And if you need to add additional funcationality that is not present in
the standard library; you can just install ruby-gems and use it to
install what additional tools you like.  http://docs.rubygems.org/  In
laymans terms its ruby's pseudo-equivalent of CPAN.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              EMAIL:PROTECTED 


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