What is “A Brief Introduction to Ruby” about?
This is a brief introduction to Ruby. Ruby is a masterfully designed language. It has been around for many years and is incredibly popular, especially among web developers. It is a friendly programming language that is intuitive and a joy to work with.
Who should read “A Brief Introduction to Ruby”?
This introduction to Ruby is for people who have some programming experience. One interesting feature of Ruby is the ability to pass code around to methods to be executed. This is a very powerful technique.
What will you learn in “A Brief Introduction to Ruby”
What you will see in this ‘book’ is a collection of code playbacks. Playbacks were designed to help guide a reader through code examples. You will get to see how I build programs up from scratch and hear me explain it in comments that I make along the way. These comments will have text, screenshots, and hand drawn pictures. This will allow you to get inside my head and hopefully this will demystify the programming process.
