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Section 1: Fundamental Ruby Programming Principles

The objective of this section is for you to understand the fundamental principles and trade-offs involved in Ruby programming, at the level of individual classes and methods.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Getting the Most out of Core Classes
Chapter 2, Designing Useful Custom Classes
Chapter 3, Proper Variable Usage
Chapter 4, Methods and Their Arguments
Chapter 5, Handling Errors
Chapter 6, Formatting Code for Easy Reading

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