Ruby Training

Ruby is a fully object-oriented, general-purpose programming language, widely known and admired for its clear, expressive syntax and its ability to help you reach your programming goals quickly and pleasurably. If you've seen Ruby before, you understand its appeal—and if you haven't, go have a look and then come back and sign up!

The course will include presentations and explanations of Ruby-language features by well-known experts, with an emphasis on live code demos, and hands-on practice and exercises for the participants.

Course objectives include an understanding of:

• Ruby's syntax

• The Ruby object model

• Built-in classes: strings, arrays, hashes, and more

• Method definition and calling semantics

• Basic object-orientation principles

• Program design with classes and modules

• File and console I/O

• Ruby iterators and collection objects

• Code blocks and lambdas

• Ruby's scripting power

• Basic testing principles and Ruby's testing facilities

• ...and more!