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    			  &quot;Beginning Ruby&quot; by Peter Cooper is not the best book on earth, but it's good enough for whoever wants to learn about Ruby.  The author claims that his book will be easy to digest even if you're a complete stranger to computer programming.  I beg it is not so.  I think you still need a little computer programming knowledge elsewhere to fully enjoy &quot;Beginning Ruby.&quot;<br/><br/>I'm only on page 212 so far, and so my opinion maybe imperfect, but then again all opinions should be so.  I recommend you to read &quot;Beginning Ruby,&quot; because I'm myself enjoy reading it.  I cannot say that I will become an expert in Ruby by finishing reading this book, but I have to say this book helps me understand Ruby a lot more than ever before.  For examples, how to use symbols, hash, array, class, module, libraries, irb, catch and throw, and so on.  I'm pretty sure all programming languages have similar ways of doing things, and so Ruby.  Many other languages like to emphasize on doing the right way with few approaches, but Ruby likes to take many roads that led to Rome.  &quot;Beginning Ruby&quot; also has many good concise examples for you to try out so Ruby will stick with you a lot longer.  There are projects that are available for you to follow so you can get a feel of coding a real project.<br/><br/>Last note:  If you're a programmer, you probably know what I'm trying to say -- Ruby is a language that everything is an object.  Ruby is a very high level language that it's safe to say -- Ruby is more real in a sense of being an object oriented language than any language that claimed to be so.
    			
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