[ale] A Hal Fulton Blog article on CompSci degrees

[leamhall at gmail.com (leam hall)]

Hal, thanks! I'm "leitz" and often try to wrap my head around OOP.  The
next task will be to capture command output and make tests for it, since I
can't figure out how Cucumber runs and tests external commands.

I've been using Puppet to introduce Ruby to my team so I can use the OS's
1.8.7 or Puppet's 1.9.3. Normally I code for the oldest knowing it will run
pretty much anywhere my work goes.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Hal Fulton <rubyhacker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find it annoying that anyone would "give you grief" about
> your Ruby version.
>
> I'm (usually) in that channel, and I'll help you with any
> version 1.4 or newer as I'm able.
>
> Hal
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:43 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The issue I'm hitting is the same in other languages; going from a very
>> small thing to figuring out how to do a very big thing. The PHP community
>> has the https://phpmentoring.org/ site and it's pretty cool. When I hit
>> Freenode's #ruby channel I get a lot of grief about using an old Ruby, yet
>> that's what's on my servers so that's what I can use day to day. If it's
>> not day to day it isn't going to sink in.
>>
>> I need to see if the Ruby community can pick up the mentoring idea.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Scott M. Jones <eff at dragoncon.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And the best way to learn something is (still) to take on a project and
>>> force yourself to use the knowledge.
>>>
>>> need to learn > want to learn
>>>
>>> On 9/17/15 1:59 PM, leam hall wrote:
>>> > I am discontent and "want to" learn deeper languages like C, Go, and
>>> > Assembler. Yet my "want to" seems more a love for the idea of the thing
>>> > than the thing itself. I have hundreds of dollars in study materials
>>> for
>>> > them but get more done and have more fun with Ruby. I whine about
>>> Ruby's
>>> > resource consumption and then use it anyway.
>>> >
>>> > My ego doesn't like the truths my actions proclaim.
>>>
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