[wplug] Best programming language for beginner?

[Vikram Sai Balaji Gmail]

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
is a comical and graphical way of understanding Ruby. its good for starters in programming.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

Other Ruby readings

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> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:55:33 -0500
> From: Greg Akins <angrygreg at gmail.com>
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> I think Ruby is a great choice, but Python would be my second.
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> Either is good for beginning because of the environment.  Using a console
> makes it easier than having to deal with the JVM and write/compile/run
> sequence.  There are some good online programming tools where you can just
> write ruby in a browser and run immediately
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> Checkout tryruby.com  Not sure of a similar tool for Python.
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> Greg Akins
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