| Author | Zed A. Shaw |
| Format | online HTML |
| Price | free |
In Learn Ruby the Hard Way, Third Edition , you’ll learn Ruby by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you’ll learn how software works; what good programs look like; how to read, write, and think about code; and how to find and fix your mistakes using tricks professional programmers use.
Chapters include:
- The Setup
- A Good First Program
- Comments And Pound Characters
- Numbers And Math
- Variables And Names
- More Variables And Printing
- Strings And Text
- More Printing
- Printing, Printing
- Printing, Printing, Printing
- What Was That?
- Asking Questions
- Prompting People
- Parameters, Unpacking, Variables
- Prompting And Passing
- Reading Files
- Reading And Writing Files
- More Files
- Names, Variables, Code, Functions
- Functions And Variables
- Functions And Files
- Functions Can Return Something
- What Do You Know So Far?
- Read Some Code
- More Practice
- Even More Practice
- Congratulations, Take A Test!
- Memorizing Logic
- Boolean Practice
- What If
- Else And If
- Making Decisions
- Loops And Arrays
- While Loops
- Accessing Elements Of Arrays
- Branches and Functions
- Designing and Debugging
- Symbol Review
- Doing Things To Arrays
- Dictionaries, Oh Lovely Dictionaries
- Modules, Classes, And Objects
- Learning To Speak Object Oriented
- Is-A, Has-A, Objects, and Classes
- Gothons From Planet Percal #25
- Inheritance Vs. Composition
- You Make A Game
- A Project Skeleton
- Automated Testing
- Advanced User Input
- Making Sentences
- Your First Website
- Getting Input From A Browser
- The Start Of Your Web Game
- Advice From An Old Programmer
- Next Steps
- Command Line Crash Course
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