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Add to SafariWhen comparing MacRuby: The Definitive Guide vs The Pragmatic Studio, the Slant community recommends The Pragmatic Studio for most people. In the question“What are the best resources to learn Ruby?” The Pragmatic Studio is ranked 7th while MacRuby: The Definitive Guide is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose The Pragmatic Studio is:
The projects are designed in a way that allows you to visualize how OOP (object oriented programming) concepts fit together from the ground up.
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Pros
Pro Will teach you to think like a programmer
The projects are designed in a way that allows you to visualize how OOP (object oriented programming) concepts fit together from the ground up.
Pro Awesome instructors
The instructors (Mike and Nicole Clark) have a very clear and concise teaching style.
Cons
Con Outdated - Material is no longer very relevant.
MacRuby is not the best introduction to the Ruby language, as it was meant as an introduction to MacRuby which is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 on top of the native Objective-C runtime and CoreFoundation framework of OSX - and is not just the RUby language itself.
Furthermore, wiith the recent dump of Objective-C by Apple, most of the libraries that MacRuby was built on top of no longer exist in OSX distributions, so the project is effectively outdated. Refer to the referenced Readme on their Github project for more information.
Con High cost
The course is quite expensive, with a regular price of $199 (current sale price is $149).
