Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) | Peter Cooper | Great book to learn Ruby

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	Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) Peter Cooper Apress, 2007 - 664 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent book for novice Ruby programmers

This is an excellent book for anyone getting started with Ruby, or who has been using Rails for a little while and feels they need stronger Ruby skills (which, I suspect, describes a great number of Rails programmers, myself included).

Despite its title, this is not just a beginner's book. It does start at the beginning, and it is written without assuming a lot of background, but it is not a simplified, dumbed-down treatment. I found it to be very easy to read, and it follows a natural progression from language basics through a variety of advanced topics.

The author is a very experienced Ruby programmer, and his insights shine throughout the book. (Among many other things, he's the creator of Feed Digest, Ruby Inside, and code snippets, which he sold to DZone.

In addition to an exposition of the language that builds nicely over the course of the book, there's chapters on the Ruby ecosystem, how to design an application, and network programming. There's also a chapter that covers many of the useful libraries and gems.

There is one chapter that summarizes Rails, but this is definitely a Ruby book, not a Rails book.

Any Ruby book will inevitably be compared to Dave Thomas' Programming Ruby (commonly known as "the Pickaxe" for the image on its cover), which has been the standard reference for the language since its debut and won't lose its spot as a reference work. I found Beginning Ruby to be easier to absorb, however, and I thought the examples were especially clear and useful. If you're already deep into Ruby, you probably don't need this book. But if you're relatively early in the learning curve, I highly recommend it.

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Great book to learn Ruby

A new addition to the "Beginning..." series of books from Apress this one follows the highly successful layout of the other books. It starts with how to install Ruby on various operating systems including Windows, OS X, and Linux. Then the reader gets a good introduction to the basics of Ruby including writing your first few lines of programing. For those who need it the author takes the time to introduces the reader to the concepts of class and object as they related to the object oriented programming environment. From there the reader moves into the basics of programming with Ruby, including variables working with integers, characters and strings interpolation working with an array flow control and regular expressions.

The book then walks the reader through building a text analyzer program. Of course you to know more to create more complex programs and the author delivers a more advanced discussion of classes objects and modules. And no program is complete without documentation, built in error handling and testing. The author goes over these and other items in detail. Finally, in Chapter 12, you develop a much larger Ruby application by writing a bot program. The book ends with a discussion of Ruby on rails.

The book contains several excellent appendices and is filled with code examples. Beginning Ruby is highly recommend to anybody interested in this programming language and provides sufficient information to write basic programs without any difficulty.

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Very helpful and readable.

One of the other reviews said that it's great because the author, Peter Cooper, makes some basic assumptions (like you know how to use the internet and install programs) but he doesn't assume that you know anything about programming and starts from installing Ruby itself.

I've learned a great deal very quickly, I'd recommend this book to anyone who is wanting to learn Ruby who zero to advanced programming experience.

Good book

I'm happy with this book overall and I think it presents a lot of good information. The writing is clear and concise and it presents topics in an easy to understand manner. So far, I've come across a few minor issues that slipped past the error-checkers. I would recommend this book to beginning programmers looking to pick up Ruby. It's a very light read for experienced developers who may wish for something more substantial.

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Very practical book

This book is for everybody, beginners and proffesional programmers that want to learn ruby. This book has a good structure and a lot of examples.

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