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A guide to learning ruby¶

The Basics

1. First Steps
2. Strings
3. New names for old things
4. Variables
5. Conventions

Flow Control

1. Loops
2. Getting user input
3. Conditionals
4. While loops
5. Writing good programs

Data structures

1. Arrays
2. What can arrays do?
3. Iterators
4. Hashes
5. Example: Addressbook
6. Printing the addressbook
7. Sorting the addressbook
8. Writing good programs

Defining your own classes and methods

1. Functions
2. Classes and methods
3. More on classes
4. Implementing AddressBook
5. Writing iterators
6. More features
7. Writing good programs

Tips

1. irbrc

Resources¶

Original text found here from Learning Ruby by Daniel Carrera. See also pine.fm/LearnToProgram. There is a mess of notes at whynotwiki.com/Ruby

• rubybrain.com: super slick ajax-powered ruby library reference. There is also a downloadable version.
• Ruby Quick Reference
• Learn to Program (Chris Pine)
• free documentation at ruby-lang.org
• The Ruby Cookbook (cc)
• Ruby on Wikibooks.org
• Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
• Beginning Ruby from Novice to Professional: The best PDF book I’ve read on Ruby