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Learn to Program, Second Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series)
by
Chris Pine
Computers are everywhere, on every desk, in your iPod, cell phone, and PDA. To live well in the 21st century, you need to know how to make computers do things. And to really make computers do what you want, you have to learn to program.
Fortunately, that's easier now than ever before. Chris Pine's book will teach you how to program. You'll learn to use your computer bette
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
April 4th 2009
by Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Great book. Clear, funny, effective, and it progresses at just the right pace to challenge the reader, without plunging you into despair.
Recommended by a coworker as a great primer on Ruby--and it is! I bet it would also makes a great introduction to programming in general.
my husband got me this one. I must say, I kinda asked for it too.
curious, if I'll understand annnything.
curious, if I'll understand annnything.
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smart kids, programmer's wives, CS students
I *ahem* know the person who wrote this, so... just so you know. But I think it's a great book, and I know how much time, thought, and effort he put into it. I served as a guinea pig of sorts through all the drafts and earlier versions. I was a non-programmer to begin with, and Chris actually tried to teach me to program a couple of other times before he started writing the book. The book worked! I don't program by myself these days, but I got enough understanding from the book to be able to lis...more
Good introduction to programming, very humorous
Used this book to help a friend learn to code. Reminds me of the Learning Perl series. Good examples of Ruby. Good explanations of basic constructs. Not the greatest to teach some of the core CS theories.
Rather lazily written intro to programming through ruby. Bizarre examples and sample code that one gets bored of sorting through.
Beginners won't find it very difficult, but there isn't enough time spent on flow control or classes or basic OOP concepts for it to be that useful.
Beginners won't find it very difficult, but there isn't enough time spent on flow control or classes or basic OOP concepts for it to be that useful.
awesome book, though would have been much improved if the author had made example solutions available from somewhere
This is a great book to read If you have never done any programing. It gives a solid base in the Ruby language.
Awesome introductory book to Ruby.
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