This book is for those new to programming or that know other programming languages and would like to know Ruby. The book teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and starts with creating a basic program. Everything is covered such as control structures and variables, taking input, and creating output. Moving from the basic to more advanced topics, a solid understanding of Ruby is taught in logical progression. The book ends with an overview of the Web development framework, Ruby on Rails.
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Despite having written many computer books, I have no formal computer training, save for one Pascal class way, way, way back in high school. So I like to say that I'm not a computer geek, although I can speak their language.
My formal education was in impractical knowledge: English literature, language, and writing; philosophy and religion (with a heavy emphasis on symbolic logic); and, Latin. As you can see, nothing really useful here. I guess what I did figure out is how to learn something new, how to synthesize all the information I come across, and how to communicate what I've learned in a clear and effective manner.
Since college I've worked at a national bookstore chain, at the main library at Georgetown University, and then for DMC Insights, Inc. I started as the head of the Digital Media Technologies department, where my main focus was on developing dynamic Web sites. I've since been promoted to President of the company, but that's not as impressive as it may sound! Most of my time is spent writing (books and articles), teaching (online and in small group settings), and actually using the technologies that I write about and teach.
My formal education was in impractical knowledge: English literature, language, and writing; philosophy and religion (with a heavy emphasis on symbolic logic); and, Latin. As you can see, nothing really useful here. I guess what I did figure out is how to learn something new, how to synthesize all the information I come across, and how to communicate what I've learned in a clear and effective manner.
Since college I've worked at a national bookstore chain, at the main library at Georgetown University, and then for DMC Insights, Inc. I started as the head of the Digital Media Technologies department, where my main focus was on developing dynamic Web sites. I've since been promoted to President of the company, but that's not as impressive as it may sound! Most of my time is spent writing (books and articles), teaching (online and in small group settings), and actually using the technologies that I write about and teach.
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Excellent introduction to a great programming language,
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The Ruby Visual QuickStart Guide is a great introduction to the Ruby programming language. It is well written, the examples are well thought out, and the chapters are well organized. The explanations are simple enough for beginners to grasp, and yet the author never talks down to the reader.I believe that the book would make a great text book for a beginning programming course. It would also be appropriate for intermediate level Ruby programmers who are looking to review many of the important concepts in Ruby. I highly recommend this book.
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Surprisingly Good!,
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This book is pretty darn good and somehow gets right into details while keeping it very accessible. Note that I'm a professional programmer so many things are obvious to me. However, it may be fine for a newbie too as it's fairly "gentle".I really like that in the section on Strings he shows the difference in what happens in memory between + and << for concatenation (joining two strings). The later does NOT create an additional object in memory. He slips this kind of detail into the book while still keeping the reader from getting confused IMO. Nice intro book with just a bit more content and details than you'd hope for! Cool! Note that if you're a hardcore "go straight to the most authoritative book" type of person you may not like this. You know who you are ;) I'm more of the type that gets through a couple tutorials and then gets the most authoritative reference next.
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A very clear and great book,
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This book is very easy to read and very useful.If youre a beginner, this is the best book to start. I have a couple of book of Ruby and Rails and this is the best to start.
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