Ruby : Visual QuickStart Guide

this Book Is For Those New To Programming Or That Know Other Programming Languages And Would Like To Know Ruby. The Book Teaches The Fundamentals Of Object-oriented Programming And Starts With Creating A Basic Program. Everything Is Covered Such As Control Structures And Variables, Taking Input, And Creating Output. Moving From The Basic To More Advanced Topics, A Solid Understanding Of Ruby Is Taught In Logical Progression. The Book Ends With An Overview Of The Web Development Framework, Ruby On Rails. For those new to programming, as well as programmers that know other languages, this is the ultimate task-based tutorial to Ruby.A complete end-to-end solution for learning Ruby -- an object-oriented programming language.Written by programmer and experienced author Larry Ullman -- his Visual QuickStart Guides on PHP, MySQL, and C++ are coveted by programmers.Ruby and the Web development framework, Ruby on Rails, continue to gain in popularity and market share. For those new to programming, as well as programmers who know other languages, this is the ultimate task-based tutorial to Ruby. Ruby is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for just about any purpose: text processing, system utilities, Web development and graphical applications. Ruby is most often run through an interpreter and is an open source project: it's free for anyone to use, modify or distribute A practical handbook for both novice programmers and those new to Ruby furnishes a task-based tutorial on Ruby, explaining how to use the object-oriented programming language as well as its Web-development framework Ruby on Rails, in a variety of applications. Original. (Beginner/Intermediate)