The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the bas...
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Feb 28, 2010
Preston
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The Well-Grounded Rubyist is a well-organized, 3-part Ruby reference covering everything from beginning programmer concepts to advanced dynamic concepts generally only found in framework and library code. This edition--based on the Ruby v1.9 interpreter--is most definitely worthy being the office reference book for language-level learning. (Note that this book focuses on the Ruby language itself and NOT frameworks such as Rails.)
For those new to both Ruby and programming: definitely, More...
For those new to both Ruby and programming: definitely, More...
Nov 30, 2010
Michael
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If you are new to Ruby, this may very well be the book you are looking for, since the author was really serious about the well-grounded in the title. Together the first six chapters form Part 1, aptly called Ruby Foundations. Here youll learn about objects, modules, classes, self and control-flow techniques. Although this part may not be the most interesting for more experienced Rubyists, its certainly well-written and manages to present a lot of very fundamental Ruby right at the beginnin
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Dec 17, 2011
Richard
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I'm not really sure what the point of this book is. It's kind of a tutorial, but it assumes you already know another language, so it's not for beginners. It's been a long time since I read Programming Ruby (the standard Ruby book), so I'm not sure how this compares, but it seems to fill the same niche - part tutorial, part reference - and since the standard book already exists I'm not sure why you would buy both.
I found the chapter on Ruby's object system very confusing. Whether t More...
I found the chapter on Ruby's object system very confusing. Whether t More...
Nov 21, 2009
Louise
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This was suggested to me by someone as a helpful book for someone new to the language but not new to programming in general. I found this more helpful than the Pickaxe book because it's concise with examples while being detailed in the why's, when's and how's of things, which is something I'm more interested in when learning a new language.
It's an excellent companion to the Pickaxe book since it gives a different voice and perspective on the subject. I mainly read The Well-Grounded More...
It's an excellent companion to the Pickaxe book since it gives a different voice and perspective on the subject. I mainly read The Well-Grounded More...
Sep 04, 2011
Rick
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If you are looking for a deep, very deep understanding of Ruby then this is the book to do it.
Dec 08, 2010
Hormoz
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So far so good, the author is really faithful to the title he has chose.
Jun 15, 2011
for once the book is as awesome as the public domain engraving on its cover ;)
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