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Ruby Programming for Beginners

Learn Ruby Programming the fast and easy way!
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (713 ratings)
28,718 students
Created by Huw Collingbourne
Last updated 8/2019
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Hours of video lectures detailing the ten steps to becoming an awesome Rubyist
  • Free eBook The Little Book of Ruby and exclusive discount for The (Big) Book of Ruby
  • Downloadable source codes and sample test files to complement lectures
  • 5 extra videos detailing Ruby on Rails, Symbols, Recursion, and other challenges
  • Interactive quizzes to let you test your understanding of the topics covered

Course content

13 sections • 56 lectures • 6h 3m total length

  • Preview01:55
  • Preview07:40
  • The Little Book Of Ruby
    104 pages
  • Little Book Of Ruby Code Archive
    27.3 kB
  • Getting Started FAQ And Resources
    9 pages
  • Exclusive Discount on The (Big) Book Of Ruby
    02:34
  • Preview04:27
  • First Steps on a Mac
    04:03
  • Mac users: quick tip - open a Terminal in any folder
    02:23
  • Programming Fundamentals
    12:37

  • Step One - part one: Strings and embedded evaluation
    05:33
  • See it in action: strings
    00:55
  • Step One - part two: Objects and methods
    06:44
  • Hands-on Session: Ruby basics
    13:47

  • Step Two - part one: Creating Classes and Objects
    07:20
  • See it in action: classes and objects
    00:56
  • Step Two - part two: Initializing & Inspecting Objects
    05:21
  • Step 1 and 2 Quiz
    8 questions

  • Step Three - part one: Superclasses and Subclasses
    05:48
  • See it in action: class hierarchies
    01:07
  • Step Three - part two: Class Hierarchies
    03:46

  • Step Four - part one: Attribute Readers & Writers
    03:51
  • See it in action: attribute accessors
    00:54
  • Step Four - part two: Class Variables
    03:58
  • Step 3 and 4 Quiz
    8 questions

  • Step Five - part one: Arrays
    05:23
  • See it in action: arrays
    00:52
  • Step Five - part two: Array indexing and iterating
    06:50
  • Hands-on Session: Arrays
    07:47
  • Ruby Programming Projects
    5 pages

  • Step Six - part one: Hashes
    08:45
  • See it in action: hashes
    01:32
  • Step Six - part two: Keys and Values
    02:31
  • Step 5 and 6 Quiz
    8 questions

  • Step Seven - part one: Loops and Iterators
    05:27
  • See it in action: for..in loops
    01:09
  • Step Seven - part two: Blocks
    04:25

  • Step Eight - part one: Conditional Statements
    06:21
  • Step Eight - part two: Boolean operations
    04:54
  • See it in action: conditional tests
    01:53
  • Step 7 and 8 Quiz
    6 questions

  • Step Nine - part one: Modules and Mixins
    07:01
  • See it in action: modules
    01:34
  • Step Nine - part two: Constants and variables
    03:39

Description

Learn Ruby today!

Ruby is famous for being easy to learn but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While a typical Ruby tutorial or book focuses on Ruby's trendier features this course reveals the secret inner workings of one of the world's most popular programming
languages. It helps you learn Ruby in one of the easiest ways possible through 10 simple steps that will have you writing clear maintainable code in no time. Rather than bog you down with a lot of theory this course takes a hands-on approach and focuses on helping you learn Ruby so that you'reproductive on day one.

Whether you're new to programming or just new to Ruby this Ruby tutorial is your guide to rapid real-world software development withthis unique and elegant language.

Who uses Ruby?

Ruby is an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language. Leading technology companies & startups around the world use Ruby or the Ruby on Rails framework to power their websites & web applications. They include:
* Amazon
* Twitter
* Electronic Arts
* Yahoo
* New York Times
* 37 Signals

* And many many more...

Featured review

Joseph White
Joseph White
19 courses
12 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
Outstanding course materials + book with excellent video... highly professional. This is probably one of the best courses on RUBY (or any programming language) out right now. Very understandable - and the pdf book is an excellent resource!

Instructor

Huw Collingbourne
Director of Technology, SapphireSteel Software
Huw Collingbourne
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 9,332 Reviews
  • 79,388 Students
  • 16 Courses

  Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of programming tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book Of Recursion from Bitwise Books and of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range of programming topics. 

     Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK. For over ten years he wrote the Delphi and Java programming column for PC Plus Magazine.  He has also written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C#, C++, Smalltalk and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as Computer Shopper, PC Pro, and PC Plus. 

     In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of 1980s murder mysteries. 

     At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido, a martial art which he teaches in North Devon, UK. The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control. 

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