Learn Ruby the Hard Way: A Simple and Idiomatic Introduction

In this book, you'll learn Ruby by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you'll learn how software works; what good programs look like; how to read, write, and think about code; and how to find and fix your mistakes using tricks professional programmers use.

Zed Shaw has perfected the world's best system for learning Ruby. Follow it and you will succeed - just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.

It'll Be Hard At First. But Soon, You'll Just Get It - And That Will Feel Great!

This tutorial will reward you for every minute you put into it. Soon, you'll know one of the world's most powerful, popular programming languages. You'll be a Ruby programmer.

Installing your Ruby environmentOrganizing and writing codeRuby symbols and keywordsBasic mathematicsVariables and printingStrings and textInteracting with usersWorking with filesUsing and creating functionsLooping and logicArrays and elementsHashmapsProgram designObject-oriented programmingInheritance and compositionModules, classes, and objectsProject - skeleton - directoriesDebugging and automated testingAdvanced user inputText processingBasic game developmentBasic web development