Ruby Tutorial LiveLessons (Video Training)
Published on 28. April 2015
Book
Mixed media product
848 pages
978-0-321-55373-7 (ISBN)
Description
Video training on demand: a complete, easy video course for everyone
who wants to master Ruby and write Rails apps
degrees Start-to-finish personal training on Ruby programming by one of the world's leading
experts: just watch and learn!
degrees Step-by-step video walkthroughs and examples take developers from basic syntax
through sophisticated web programming, and beyond
degrees Great classroom training at a fraction of the cost... for professionals who don't have
time to read a book
Summary
Ruby is one of the world's fastest-growing programming languages. In Ruby
Tutorial: Video LiveLessons, one of the world's top Ruby programmers and
trainers presents more than four hours of personalized Ruby video training.
Hal Fulton (author of The Ruby Way) teaches virtually every essential skill
developers need to build production-ready Ruby applications - including the
Rails applications that are in exceptionally high demand.
Through all 16 lessons, viewers build their skills one step at a time, using realworld
examples. Fulton begins by introducing all of the essential concepts
every Ruby programmer needs to know, including basic Ruby syntax and
object-oriented techniques; I/O, flow control, and exceptions; strings and
regular expressions; math, core classes, arrays, hashes, databases, and more.
Then, building on these basics, Fulton introduces more advanced techniques -
including dynamic language features, graphical interface development, green
threads, interacting with the underlying operating system, web programming,
and the use of Ruby development tools.
Like all products in the highly successful LiveLessons series, Ruby Tutorial
responds to the growing marketplace demand for just-in-time training delivered
visually, by leading industry experts. It delivers the power of the best classroom
training at a small fraction of the cost, and is designed to appeal to the
enormous audience of professionals who don't have time to read a large book
on Ruby programming.
who wants to master Ruby and write Rails apps
degrees Start-to-finish personal training on Ruby programming by one of the world's leading
experts: just watch and learn!
degrees Step-by-step video walkthroughs and examples take developers from basic syntax
through sophisticated web programming, and beyond
degrees Great classroom training at a fraction of the cost... for professionals who don't have
time to read a book
Summary
Ruby is one of the world's fastest-growing programming languages. In Ruby
Tutorial: Video LiveLessons, one of the world's top Ruby programmers and
trainers presents more than four hours of personalized Ruby video training.
Hal Fulton (author of The Ruby Way) teaches virtually every essential skill
developers need to build production-ready Ruby applications - including the
Rails applications that are in exceptionally high demand.
Through all 16 lessons, viewers build their skills one step at a time, using realworld
examples. Fulton begins by introducing all of the essential concepts
every Ruby programmer needs to know, including basic Ruby syntax and
object-oriented techniques; I/O, flow control, and exceptions; strings and
regular expressions; math, core classes, arrays, hashes, databases, and more.
Then, building on these basics, Fulton introduces more advanced techniques -
including dynamic language features, graphical interface development, green
threads, interacting with the underlying operating system, web programming,
and the use of Ruby development tools.
Like all products in the highly successful LiveLessons series, Ruby Tutorial
responds to the growing marketplace demand for just-in-time training delivered
visually, by leading industry experts. It delivers the power of the best classroom
training at a small fraction of the cost, and is designed to appeal to the
enormous audience of professionals who don't have time to read a large book
on Ruby programming.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-321-55373-7 (9780321553737)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Hal Fulton has been programming with Ruby since its earliest incarnation in 1999, and is author of the best-selling Ruby guide The Ruby Way, which was the second Ruby book published in the English language. He has attended and presented at numerous Ruby conferences. Fulton holds two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi, and taught computer science for four years before moving to Austin, Texas to work as a contractor for various companies, including IBM. He maintains the comp.lang.ruby FAQ, recently spoke at Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Conference, and is a member of both the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
Content
1. OOP and basic Ruby syntax
2. Basic Input/Output
3. Flow control and exceptions
4. Ruby at the Command Line
5. Strings and Regular Expressions
6. Numbers and Math in Ruby
7. The Ruby core classes
8. Arrays, Hashes, and More
9. Files, I/O, and Databases
13. Green Threads in Ruby
14. Ruby and the OS
15. Ruby and the Web
16. Ruby Development Tools
2. Basic Input/Output
3. Flow control and exceptions
4. Ruby at the Command Line
5. Strings and Regular Expressions
6. Numbers and Math in Ruby
7. The Ruby core classes
8. Arrays, Hashes, and More
9. Files, I/O, and Databases
13. Green Threads in Ruby
14. Ruby and the OS
15. Ruby and the Web
16. Ruby Development Tools