I'm a beginner at the Ruby language, having programmed in ASM,C,Java and PHP before. I've skimmed or partially read quite a few Ruby books. I settled on this book after my partial reads of the others and finding them a bit hard to grasp. The topics and syntax was just not sticking very well. Many
The Well Grounded Rubyist
โ Scribed by David A. Black
- Publisher
- Manning Publications
- Year
- 28 Feb 201
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 584
- Edition
- 3rd edition | Retail PDF
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Summary
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and takes you all the way to sophisticated topics like reflection, threading, and recursion. Ruby masters David A. Black and Joe Leo distill their years of knowledge for you, concentrating on the language and its uses so you can use Ruby in any way you choose. Updated for Ruby 2.5.
About the Technology
Designed for developer productivity, Ruby is an easy-to-learn dynamic language perfect for creating virtually any kind of software. Its famously friendly development community, countless libraries, and amazing tools, like the Rails framework, have established it as the language of choice for high-profile companies, including GitHub, SlideShare, and Shopify. The future is bright for the well-grounded Rubyist!
About the Book
In The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition, expert authors David A. Black and Joseph Leo III deliver Ruby mastery in an easy-to-read, casual style. You'll lock in core principles as you write your first Ruby programs. Then, you'll progressively build up to topics like reflection, threading, and recursion, cementing your knowledge with high-value exercises to practice your skills along the way.
What's Inside
โข Basic Ruby syntax
โข Running Ruby extensions
โข FP concepts like currying, side-effect-free code, and recursion
โข Ruby 2.5 updates
About the Reader
For readers with beginner-level programming skills, as well as more advanced programmers interested in Ruby and experienced Rubyists looking to review the foundations of their practice.
โฆ Table of Contents
PART 1. RUBY FOUNDATIONS
1. Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy
2. Objects, methods, and local variables
3. Organizing objects with classes
4. Modules and program organization
5. The default object (self), scope, and visibility
6. Control-flow techniques
PART 2. BUILT-IN CLASSES AND MODULES
7. Built-in essentials
8. Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects
9. Collection and container objects
10. Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator
11. Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations
12. File and I/O operations
PART 3. RUBY DYNAMICS
13. Object individuation
14. Callable and runnable objects
15. Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection
16. Ruby and functional programming
โฆ Subjects
Programming; Ruby; Functional Programming; Object-Oriented Programming; Modules; Entry Level; Callback Functions; Regular Expressions
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I'm a beginner at the Ruby language, having programmed in ASM,C,Java and PHP before. I've skimmed or partially read quite a few Ruby books. I settled on this book after my partial reads of the others and finding them a bit hard to grasp. The topics and syntax was just not sticking very well. Many
<DIV><p><i>The Well-Grounded Rubyist</i> takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and takes you all the way to sophisticated topics like reflection, threading, and recursion. Ruby masters David A. Black and Joe Leo distill their years of knowledge for you, concentra
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