Re: Need people to give feedback
Leam Hall <[email protected]>
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On 10/18/18 3:51 AM, Andy Jones wrote: >>>>>>>>> > > I am porting my Ruby book to HTML here https://i-love-ruby.gitlab.io/ , > I would be very happy if people who want to learn Ruby can use it and > give me feedback, possibly negative ones so that I can improve my book. > > <<<<<<<< > > This is very unfair of me but I find the book hard to read because it’s > not written in grammatically correct English. I doubt that would stop > anyone learning Ruby from it, so please take this with a grain of salt! > > Random example: “With irb we can do easy math.” I think it would be > better English to say, “With irb we can do math easily” – which in this > case also happens to clarify the meaning; presumably you do not mean > that we can only do easy sums using irb… I don't think it's unfair at all. English is a very difficult language to learn; even many native speakers don't know the rules. I'm pretty sure I don't know them but I go by what sounds right. Talked to Packt a couple months ago, in the "Go Standard Library Cookbook" Chapter 1 was full of grammar and code errors. I am much less likely to buy another Packt book if they don't want to edit their work before selling it. Never really made it to Chapter 2. The extra effort to edit the text to make it proper English will probably help people stay with it longer and learn more. If you feel Ruby deserves the effort I encourage you to work on the grammar. Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-talk>