Re: Ruby Class help
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:25 am
trogluddite wrote:tulamide wrote:But whatever "course" I started it always ended with not connecting the dots.
When I think back to first learning OOP, I'm always reminded of the old joke: (Visitor) "Excuse me, could you tell me the way into town?" - (Local Person) "Oooh; if I was going there, I wouldn't start from here!". The familiar-looking syntax made it hard for me to see that OOP is a different way even to think about code in the abstract sense. I made it hard for Ruby to be my friend because I wanted to be the same control-freak micro-manager that ASM had taught me to be!
Haha! I remember when a mysterious thing called "Python 0.9b" was passed around mailboxes, and everyone thought "wth?" I couldn't create even the tiniest working code, not because of that obscure language, but because of my lack of understanding!
Without reference to the joke, I think as a guy who started his journey with "10 PRINT 'HALLO' 20 GOTO 10" and getting used to commands like PEEK and POKE, I've come a long, long way.