I think I represent a pretty novice user, although I suspect my level of ignorance is far higher than most 'beginners'. <br><br>I would really appreciate some decent book recommendations on programming in general. Although I'm able to follow the tutorial I'm using and picking up a bit of ruby along the way, I'm ignorant about a lot of basic things (the benefit of indenting for example) and most books i have come across seem to have good details on the fundamentals of a particular language but don't explain more basic issues.
<br><br>In terms of presentations, a walk through of developing a basic application/site from initial design through testing to use would be really handy.<br><br>thanks also for the help! i realise now it was a pretty stupid problem but you all helped me realise that and finally seeing the page without the syntax error was pretty cool
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Tom<br>