Overview
- This book uses a series of creative projects to teach many innovative techniques
- It is an original approach to Ruby, which will inspire existing Ruby users, rather than just rehashing the basics
- Revitalized by Ruby on Rails, the Ruby language continues to grow in popularity. Books like this are necessary to fill the demand
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Want to take Ruby to the limit? Looking for new, powerful, and creative ideas that will take Ruby beyond Rails and web programming? If you're comfortable with Ruby, you'll be itching to go further—apply Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer and become a master of advanced Ruby techniques.
Rubyist Topher Cyll brings several imaginative projects to this book, ranging from making generative music, animations, and turn–based games to implementing simulations, algorithms, and even an implementation of Lisp!
Art, music, theory, and games—this book has it all. Best of all, it's all done with Ruby.
Each chapter, in addition to making you say “Cool—I hadn't thought of that before,” looks at solving tricky development problems, enforces best practices, and encourages creative thinking. You'll be building your own exciting, imaginative ruby projects in no time.
- Create imaginative and innovative Ruby programming projects
- Learn how to solve tricky development problems, be guided by best practices, and be inspired to think creatively
- Don't waste time on the basics—it's assumed you know the fundamentals of Ruby already
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About the author
Topher Cyll is a software engineer and writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Williams College and works for a small Boston-area startup. In reverse alphabetical order, he finds programming languages, music, free software, education, bioengineering, and beer terribly exciting. Topher loves Ruby not only for the language itself, but also the light-hearted and intellectually curious community that surrounds it.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Ruby Projects
Book Subtitle: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer
Authors: Topher Cyll
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0471-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Christopher Cyll 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-911-2Published: 18 December 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0471-8Published: 11 March 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 328
Topics: Web Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems