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Ruby Programming for Beginners

This is a Ruby programming course for beginners. Learn Ruby programming the fast and easy way!

Learn Ruby today!

Ruby is famous for being easy to learn but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While a typical Ruby tutorial or book focuses on Ruby's trendier features this course reveals the secret inner workings of one of the world's most popular programming languages.


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It helps you to learn Ruby in one of the easiest ways possible through 10 simple steps that will have you writing clear maintainable code in no time. Rather than bog you down with a lot of theory this course takes a hands-on approach and focuses on helping you learn Ruby so that you're productive on day one.

Whether you're new to programming or just new to Ruby this Ruby tutorial is your guide to rapid real-world software development with this unique and elegant language.

Who uses Ruby?

Ruby is an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language. Leading technology companies & startups around the world use Ruby or the Ruby on Rails framework to power their websites & web applications. They include:

  • Amazon
  • Twitter
  • Electronic Arts
  • Yahoo!
  • New York Times
  • 37 Signals

* And many many more...

What am I going to get from this course?

  • Hours of video lectures detailing the ten steps to becoming an awesome Rubyist
  • Free eBook The Little Book of Ruby and exclusive discount for The (Big) Book of Ruby
  • Downloadable source codes and sample test files to complement lectures
  • 5 extra videos detailing Ruby on Rails, Symbols, Recursion, and other challenges
  • Interactive quizzes to let you test your understanding of the topics covered

Ruby Programming for Beginners

About the Instructor

Huw Collingbourne
Director of Technology, SapphireSteel Software

Course content

Total 3 hours 36 minutes
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Introduction
1 Welcome to Ruby Programming For Beginners Preview 7:40
2 Little Book Of Ruby 1:00
3 Little Book Of Ruby Code Archive 1:00
4 Getting Started FAQ And Resources 1:00
5 Getting Ready Preview 4:27
6 First Steps on a Mac 4:03
7 Mac users :quick tip - open a Terminal in any folder 2:23
8 Programming Fundamentals 12:29
Step One
9 Step One - part one: Strings and embedded evaluation 5:33
10 Step One - part two: Objects and methods 6:44
11 Hands-on Session: Ruby basics 13:47
Step Two
12 Step Two - part one: Creating Classes and Objects 7:20
13 Step Two - part two: Initializing & Inspecting Objects 5:21
Step Three
14 Step Three - part one: Superclasses and Subclasses 5:48
15 Step Three - part two: Class Hierarchies 3:46
Step Four
16 Step Four - part one: Attribute Readers & Writers 3:51
17 Step Four - part two: Class Variables 3:58
Step Five
18 Step Five - part one: Arrays 5:23
19 Step Five - part two: Array indexing and iterating 6:50
20 Hands-on Session: Arrays 7:47
21 Ruby Programming Projects 1:00
Step Six
22 Step Six - part one: Hashes 8:45
23 Step Six - part two: Keys and Values 2:31
Step Seven
24 Step Seven - part one: Loops and Iterators 5:27
25 Step Seven - part two: Blocks 4:25
Step Eight
26 Step Eight - part one: Conditional Statements 6:21
27 Step Eight - part two: Boolean Operations 4:54
Step Nine
28 Step Nine - part one: Modules and Mixins 7:01
29 Step Nine - part two: Constants and Variables 3:39
Step Ten
30 Step Ten - part one: Saving Data With YAML 6:38
31 Step Ten - part two: Going Further 2:18
32 Hands-on Session: Classes and Objects revisited 12:51
Extras
33 Ruby On Rails 5:43
34 Putting the Ruby into Rails 3:43
35 Ruby on Rails Notes 1:00
36 Ruby Extras 1:00
37 File Operations and Recursion 6:45
38 File Operations and Recursion 1:00
39 Symbols 10:17
40 Book Of Ruby, Chapter 11: Symbols 1:00
41 Adventure Game 1:00
42 Write an Adventure Game 8:12

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