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Learn Ruby in your web browser
Why the Lucky Stiff, dynamo of the Ruby community and writer of the Poignant Guide to Ruby, has created Try Ruby, an interactive Ruby prompt that, though the magic of (you guessed it) AJAX runs right in your web browser. If you've ever wanted to try programming in Ruby but don't want to take the time to download and install it on your machine, this is your chance. Try Ruby even has a built-in Ruby tutorial, though Why says it's only half-finished, so if you run into a brick wall and want to keep learning try the Poignant Guide above, the Pickaxe, or, for the brand new programmer, Chris Pine's How to Program.[Via Simon Willison]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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Apple said 1:07AM on 11-30-2005
Woah! thanks for the heads up, I'm going to learn ruby now. :)
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Derek Organ said 8:12AM on 11-30-2005
Absolutely brilliant way to teach someone programming. There should be something like this for every programming language.
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