The Little Book Of Ruby Programming: Learn To Program Ruby For Beginners

by Huw Collingbourne

THE LITTLE BOOK OF RUBY The fastest, easiest way to learn to program Ruby . This book will teach you to program the Ruby language from the ground up. You will learn about Object Orientation, classes, methods, modules and mixins, file operations and exception-handling. Whether you are a new programmer or an experienced programmer who wants to learn the Ruby language quickly and easily, this is the book for you! Huw Collingbourne has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is an online programming instructor who has taught tens of thousands of students to code in languages such as Ruby, C, C#, Java and Object Pascal. He had written programming columns for numerous computer magazines such as PC Plus and Computer Shopper . He is Technical Director of the independent development company, SapphireSteel Software. He is the author of a number of programming books including The Little Book Of C , The Little Book Of C #, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book of Recursion . The Little Book Of Ruby gives you just the stuff you really need to get straight to the heart of Ruby programming without all the fluff and padding.

138 pages, Paperback

Published August 15, 2019

About the author

Huw Collingbourne is a writer, programming instructor and software developer. He is the author of a number of fiction and factual books. His novels include the Kill Job series (gritty 1960s Cold War and crime) The Exodus Plague post-apocalyptic thrillers and The 1980s Murder Mysteries (crime capers).

In the 1980s Huw was a pop music journalist and he interviewed many of the 'New Romantic' stars such as Boy George, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Depeche Mode. In the 1990s he published the 'adult humour' magazine, 18 Rated, which was immediately banned by all leading UK newsagents (who obviously failed to see the joke).

Huw's programming books including The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers, The Little Book of Recursion, The Little Book Of C#, The Little Book Of Ruby and The Book Of Ruby. He has programmed in a broad range of languages since the early 1980s. He has written programming and technical columns for numerous computer magazines in the UK including PC Plus, PC Pro and Computer Shopper. He is author of the cult adventure game, The Golden Wombat Of Destiny.

Huw has, at various times, been a magazine editor, publisher and TV presenter. He has an MA in English and a 2nd dan black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido - the latter skill useful when attempting to control his huge, hairy and amazingly strong Pyrenean Mountain Dogs.