Book description
Ruby Wizardry is a modern day fairy tale that teaches programming skills kids can use.
Table of contents
- Ruby Wizardry: An Introduction to Programming for Kids
- Dedication
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
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1. What This Book’s About
- Why Learn Programming (and Why Ruby)?
- All Adults on Deck: Installing Ruby
- Achievement Unlocked: Ruby Installed!
- Putting on the Ruby Slippers
- Getting to Know IRB
- Using a Text Editor and the ruby Command
- When to Use IRB and When to Use a Text Editor
- The Prompts Used in This Book
- Into the Shiny Red Yonder
- 2. The King and His String
- 3. Pipe Dreams
- 4. Staying in the Loop
- 5. Array of Sunshine and Hash on the Range
- 6. The (Chunky) Bacon to Ruby’s Hash
- 7. The Magic of Methods and Blocks
- 8. Everything Is an Object (Almost)
- 9. Inheriting the Magic of Ruby
- 10. A Horse of a Different Color
- 11. Second Time’s the Charm
- 12. Reading, Writing, and Ruby Magic
- 13. Follow the WEBrick Road
- 14. Where to Go Next
- A. Installing Ruby on Mac and Linux
- B. Troubleshooting
- Updates
- Index
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Ruby Wizardry
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781593275662
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