The Bastards Book of Ruby
Thanks for who posted this, I'm ashamed to say that it is in need of an update/typo-fixing that hasn't been done yet (as you can tell by the winter seasonal photo).<p>The main complaint I've heard from people who go through Codecademy/Khan any of the other "easy-to-interactively-learn" options out there is that they don't know what to do with their knowledge of loops/conditionals/variables beyond passing the tests. I wanted something focused on applied tasks, whether it be web scraping/API-fetching or even something as simple as batch concatenating/editing text files.<p>That's how I myself learned, anyway, so just wanted to point  out to other authors the value of simple real-world-data projects as a way to keep readers interested.