Introduction

With the never-ending pink slips in education, I recently lost my job after two years having my own classroom in California. While filling in unemployment forms and other nonsense, I'm spending my summer to get back to my roots of programming from my high school days of QBASIC.

The material I'm learning from this year--which I started last year and never finished--is from Learn to Program by Chris Pine. My goal is to get through the book effectively, using other sources as well, to become a halfway decent amateur Ruby programmer by the end of my summer: September. Every day I will post some kind of original code and some review for myself so I can remember what I learned each day. This post will probably be my most elaborate; expect shorthand from here on out. Thanks for following!