Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Chapter 2: Simple Scripts
- Chapter 3: Simple Types
- Chapter 4: Arrays, Ranges, and Hashes
- Chapter 5: Control Structures
- Chapter 6: Creating Methods
- Chapter 7: Creating Classes
- Chapter 8: Inheritance and More
- Chapter 9: Modules and Includes
- Chapter 10: Regular Expressions
- Chapter 11: Debugging and Error Handling
- Chapter 12: RubyGems
- Chapter 13: Directories and Files
- Chapter 14: Databases
- Chapter 15: Networking
- Chapter 16: Ruby on Rails
- Chapter 17: Dynamic Programming
- Index
Product information
- Title: Ruby: Visual Quickstart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2008
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780321580658
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