<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pook1e</author><text>As others have mentioned, there are plenty of good Ruby tutorials around. Personally, I thought &quot;why&apos;s (poignant) Guide to Ruby&quot;[1] was pretty great. It goes off topic quite a lot, but I think it&apos;s a joy to read while still learning the core concepts.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>airlair</author><text>Beginner here, I&apos;m a mechanical engineer with very little experience with programming. I tried to follow the book this week but found it little bit difficult to follow. Question: Should I go learn the basics of Ruby first or should I power through hoping to learn everything along the way? If you think that I should learn the basics first, would you recommend learnrubythehardway or something else? Thanks in advance!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition</title><url>http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-2nd-edition</url><text></text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>escalona</author><text>I started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails a few months ago. I&apos;ve found it much easier to learn the basics of Ruby before diving into Rails. I started with reading Learn to Program by Chris Pines. The book is aimed at someone new to programming. Does a great explaining programming and Ruby.</text><parent_chain><item><author>airlair</author><text>Beginner here, I&apos;m a mechanical engineer with very little experience with programming. I tried to follow the book this week but found it little bit difficult to follow. Question: Should I go learn the basics of Ruby first or should I power through hoping to learn everything along the way? If you think that I should learn the basics first, would you recommend learnrubythehardway or something else? Thanks in advance!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition</title><url>http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-2nd-edition</url><text></text></story>