Learn Ruby the Hard Way: A Simple and Idiomatic Introduction to the Imaginative World Of Computational Thinking with Code
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You Will Learn Ruby!
Zed Shaw has perfected the world’s best system for learning Ruby. Follow it and you will succeed—just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.
In Learn Ruby the Hard Way, Third Edition, you’ll learn Ruby by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you’ll learn how software works; what good programs look like; how to read, write, and think about code; and how to find and fix your mistakes using tricks professional programmers use. Most importantly, you’ll learn the following, which you need to start writing excellent Ruby software of your own:
• Installing your Ruby environment
• Organizing and writing code
• Ruby symbols and keywords
• Basic mathematics
• Variables and printing
• Strings and text
• Interacting with users
• Working with files
• Using and creating functions
• Looping and logic
• Arrays and elements
• Hashmaps
• Program design
• Object-oriented programming
• Inheritance and composition
• Modules, classes, and objects
• Project “skeleton” directories
• Debugging and automated testing
• Advanced user input
• Text processing
• Basic game development
• Basic web development
It’ll Be Hard At First. But Soon, You’ll Just Get It—And That Will Feel Great!
This tutorial will reward you for every minute you put into it. Soon, you’ll know one of the world’s most powerful, popular programming languages. You’ll be a Ruby programmer.
Learn Ruby the Hard Way: A Simple and Idiomatic Introduction to the Imaginative World Of Computational Thinking with Code
You Will Learn Ruby!
Zed Shaw has perfected the world’s best system for learning Ruby. Follow it and you will succeed—just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.
In Learn Ruby the Hard Way, Third Edition, you’ll learn Ruby by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you’ll learn how software works; what good programs look like; how to read, write, and think about code; and how to find and fix your mistakes using tricks professional programmers use. Most importantly, you’ll learn the following, which you need to start writing excellent Ruby software of your own:
• Installing your Ruby environment
• Organizing and writing code
• Ruby symbols and keywords
• Basic mathematics
• Variables and printing
• Strings and text
• Interacting with users
• Working with files
• Using and creating functions
• Looping and logic
• Arrays and elements
• Hashmaps
• Program design
• Object-oriented programming
• Inheritance and composition
• Modules, classes, and objects
• Project “skeleton” directories
• Debugging and automated testing
• Advanced user input
• Text processing
• Basic game development
• Basic web development
It’ll Be Hard At First. But Soon, You’ll Just Get It—And That Will Feel Great!
This tutorial will reward you for every minute you put into it. Soon, you’ll know one of the world’s most powerful, popular programming languages. You’ll be a Ruby programmer.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780133135633 |
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| Publisher: | Pearson Education |
| Publication date: | 12/01/2014 |
| Series: | Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 336 |
| File size: | 15 MB |
| Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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