Beginning Ruby From Novice to Professional

Peter Cooper — 2007

Ruby is perhaps best known as the engine powering the hugely popular Ruby on Rails web framework. However, it is an extremely powerful and versatile programming language in its own right. It focuses on simplicity and offers a fully object-oriented environment. Beginning Ruby is a thoroughly contemporary guide for every type of reader who wants to learn Ruby, from novice programmers to web developers to Ruby newcomers. It starts by explaining the principles behind object-oriented programming and within a few chapters builds toward creating a genuine Ruby application. The book then explains key Ruby principles, such as classes and objects, projects, modules, and libraries, and other aspects of Ruby such as database access. In addition, Ruby on Rails is covered in depth, and the books appendixes provide essential reference information as well as a primer for experienced programmers. What you’ll learn Understand the basics of Ruby and object-oriented building blocks. Work with Ruby libraries, gems, and documentation. Work with files and databases. Write and deploy Ruby applications. Explore Ruby web frameworks and aspects of network programming with Ruby. Develop desktop and GUI applications with Ruby. Who this book is for Beginning programmers, programmers new to Ruby, and web developers interested in knowing the foundations of the language.

Reviews

Kerri Miller@kerrizor

Jan 20, 2022

This is a tough one. Its a book that is clear and basic, a text for - as the title makes clear - novices... as long as the novices have some other programming exposure, and can deal with the firehose of information. The book oftentimes errs on the side of provide the Complete Information on a topic, along with All The Context - admirable, but for beginners, its just too much. We've been using it alongside Chris Pine's Learning To Program, which may be magnifying its issues. That said, its a very comprehensive book, with a solid structure and organization to the information presented.. it just sometimes seems to either not know who its been written for (utter novices or programmers who are simply novice at Ruby), or not aware that sometimes when teaching, its ok to only give the student a subset of information about the topic. 3 stars if you're an utter novice 4 stars if you have previous programming language experience

Matthew Royal@masyukun

Feb 13, 2023