Ruby book for beginner
June 7, 2008 – 2:18 amSometimes people don’t know how to start learn ruby programming and still searching which book are suitable to them as a beginner. So I’m also as a beginner in ruby and rails programming, will suggest people to get Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book as a reference to get start with ruby programming. This book will teach you the basic of ruby.
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Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book is a book about this fine language, but it is not a language book per se. It is perhaps best described as a mix between your favorite novel, your favorite Spanish textbook, and a Richard Simmons exercise video: it walks you through the very basics of working with Ruby, but by the end of it, you’ll no doubt be sweatin’ it to the oldies. It covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.
Expect this book to rock your world. Or at least teach you a programming language.
144 pages, 6″x9″
You can download here to get free eBook in pdf format.
Table of contents
1 Welcome to Ruby
Basic Concepts of Ruby
Types in Ruby
Collections
Variables and the Like
2 Break it down now!
Methods
Blocks and Proc Objects
Modules
Files
3 Hustle and flow (control)
Conditionals
Loops
Exceptions
4 The System Beneath
Filesystem Interaction
Threads and Forks and Processes
Environment variables, command line
Win32 and Beyond
5 Looking Beyond Home
Networking and the Web
It’s Like Distributed or Something…
Data my base, please!
6 It’s a Library!
String Manipulation
Date/Time
Hashing and Cryptography
Unit testing
Appendix A Links and the Like
Appendix B High Performance Ruby with C/C++
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