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by hopeless 3977 days ago
The character's name is 'Ruby' but I don't expect the book itself to be any sort of introduction to ruby-the-language!

I'm a backer — I expect the book might contain some Ruby code because it's pretty readable though I'm bothered either way. I am full expecting it'll be an engaging story to teach my kids some of the concepts of programming, which have nothing to do with any particular language.
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JeremyNT 3977 days ago
It's unfortunate that the currently top rated post on this thread is about the merits of using Ruby as an introductory programming language. That's completely off topic!

I also backed the book with the understanding that it would essentially use pseudo-code. For as long as I've followed it this has never been advertised as a book about learning a language, it's always been presented as a book about learning basic concepts.

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hopeless 3977 days ago
Just to repeat and highlight this: THE BOOK ISN'T ABOUT TEACHING RUBY-THE-LANGUAGE

I've yet to even find a mention of Ruby-the-language on the site.

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sigzero 3977 days ago
Right. It teaches programming concepts with Ruby. It's not about learning Ruby the language.
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