Table of Contents
| Preface to the Second Edition |
| Introduction |
| What Is Programming? |
| Programming Languages |
| The Art of Programming |
| 1. | Getting Started |
| Windows |
| Mac OS X |
| Linux |
| 2. | Numbers |
| Did It Work? |
| Introduction to puts |
| Integer and Float |
| Simple Arithmetic |
| A Few Things to Try |
| 3. | Letters |
| String Arithmetic |
| 12 vs. ’12’ |
| Problems |
| 4. | Variables and Assignment |
| 5. | Mixing It Up |
| Conversions |
| Another Look at puts |
| The gets Method |
| Did It Work? |
| The chomp Method |
| A Few Things to Try |
| Mind Your Variables |
| 6. | More About Methods |
| Fancy String Methods |
| A Few Things to Try |
| Higher Math |
| More Arithmetic |
| Random Numbers |
| The Math Object |
| 7. | Flow Control |
| Comparison Methods |
| Branching |
| Looping |
| A Little Bit of Logic |
| A Few Things to Try |
| 8. | Arrays and Iterators |
| The Method each |
| More Array Methods |
| A Few Things to Try |
| 9. | Writing Your Own Methods |
| Method Parameters |
| Local Variables |
| Experiment: Duby |
| Return Values |
| A Few Things to Try |
| 10. | There’s Nothing New to Learn in Chapter 10 |
| Recursion |
| Rite of Passage: Sorting |
| A Few Things to Try |
| One More Example |
| A Few More Things to Try |
| 11. | Reading and Writing, Saving and Loading, Yin and…Something Else |
| Doing Something |
| The Thing About Computers… |
| Saving and Loading for Grown-Ups |
| YAML |
| Diversion: Double-Quoted Strings |
| Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming |
| Renaming Your Photos |
| A Few Things to Try |
| 12. | New Classes of Objects |
| The Time Class |
| A Few Things to Try |
| The Hash Class |
| Ranges |
| Stringy Superpowers |
| A Few More Things to Try |
| Classes and the Class Class |
| 13. | Creating New Classes,
Changing Existing Ones |
| A Few Things to Try |
| Creating Classes |
| Instance Variables |
| new vs. initialize |
| Baby Dragon |
| A Few More Things to Try |
| 14. | Blocks and Procs |
| Methods That Take Procs |
| Methods That Return Procs |
| Passing Blocks (Not Procs) into Methods |
| A Few Things to Try |
| 15. | Beyond This Fine Book |
| irb: Interactive Ruby |
| The PickAxe: Programming Ruby |
| Ruby-Talk: The Ruby Mailing List |
| Tim Toady |
| THE END |
| A1. | Possible Solutions |
| Exercises from Chapter 2 |
| Exercises from Chapter 5 |
| Exercises from Chapter 6 |
| Exercises from Chapter 7 |
| Exercises from Chapter 8 |
| Exercises from Chapter 9 |
| Exercises from Chapter 10 |
| Exercises from Chapter 11 |
| Exercises from Chapter 12 |
| Exercises from Chapter 13 |
| Exercises from Chapter 14 |
Copyright © 2014, The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
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