Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:05:15 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <8f153753-66be-4aec-ae67-ab3a0c23ca89@googlegroups.com> <96e9bddc-4a0d-4717-b01a-48ffe12c7373@googlegroups.com> <1a7e45c2-14b6-453c-ba99-adcd1ee879fc@googlegroups.com> <23a8f90b-a4d8-42d9-8279-44b724ea5894@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +a4/XxYsaMNBv7B0oU0ZhAs2io7D/hLThKlGrgtPjCyNpyjh0= Cancel-Lock: sha1:7XBiyPD9eh8Ts2Z82Tc0SCZ1WIQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: <23a8f90b-a4d8-42d9-8279-44b724ea5894@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.ruby:7206 On 06.04.2016 14:14, Cai Gengyang wrote: > Ok finally, I got it to work ! (I realized the key is just to follow > the steps in the tutorial exactly lol) That's what they are usually given for. > Guess my mind was elsewhere, thinking about my disastrous academic > career for the past few years and recent visa denial ... can't focus. > Guess when I REALLY concentrate, I can get things done but my > attention span is like that of a butterfly, perhaps I suffer from > some form of ADHD and depression. (sometimes I feel like I am on top > of the world, sometimes I feel like dirt) This is something that needs appropriate treatment - something a newsgroup cannot provide. > Gonna take a break and on to exercise 4 later ! Plan to spend a month > or two completing "Learn Ruby The Hard Way" and mastering it until it > "clicks" in my brain and becomes intuitive and 2nd nature, (just like > how playing Go is intuitive and 2nd nature to me), then build > something useful (perhaps a search engine), put it on the internet > and get users to test it ... I'd say it is quite unrealistic to spend two months on any programming language and at the end mastering it and having it become second nature - especially when having difficulties to focus. At least it would require someone extraordinarily talented or with a lot experience in programming in general (or maybe both). Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/