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Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
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Author: David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0201710897
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (15 December, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 55,377
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
A nice fun book for programmers
I guess non-programmers can read this book with benefit but having some programming background will help in appreciating the power of this language. The authors do a good job of going through Ruby's syntax and features while using OO principles to buildup on a non-trivial tutorial app. If you're a Perl/Python programmer, this book will get you up to speed quickly.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Best book on Ruby
This is the best book on Ruby, bar none. Far and away better than Ruby in a Nutshell, which is too terse to be useful. The introductory section provides a smooth ramp into learning Ruby, and the reference section in the back is so good that it's literally dog eared to the point of falling apart in my version. You can get this online for free, but if you are serious about learning Ruby (and you should be, because it's a great language), you should buy this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Book For Starting To Learn Ruby
This is my choice for "first" Ruby book. I have two other Ruby books, including "The Ruby Way", which I also love, but the "Dave & Andy Book" was my choice for starting out learning the language and writing my first programs. The Ruby Way is probably the next book - loaded with great algorithms you can jump right into when you know exactly what you're looking for - but I really like this book better for language basics. Ruby is a beautiful language, and this book shows it. It will get you started fast, and you will keep coming back to it later when you want to gain deeper understanding of basic things like Ruby classes and OO, variables, iterators, etc.
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