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If you know basic high-school math, you can quickly learn and apply the core concepts of computer science with this concise, hands-on book. Led by a team of experts, you’ll quickly understand the difference between computer science and computer programming, and you’ll learn how algorithms help you solve computing problems.

Ruby is a free and powerful programming language that can be used to develop programs to meet nearly any programming challenge, including scripting, application programming and Web development. This new text teaches Ruby programming through a lively hands-on approach and a focus on game development. Students begin by learning the fundamentals of computer programming and will move on to mastering the concepts and principles involved in Ruby programming. Topics covered include formulating regular expressions, basic debugging techniques, and performing file and folder administration. For those students interested in learning how to do Web development with Ruby using Ruby on Rails, this book also provides the necessary prerequisite foundation and introduction.

Professor Justin Mui guides you through everything Ruby as well as various frameworks such as the popular Ruby on Rails and Ruby Motion for iOS applications. Justin's method of teaching is very hands-on and interactive where you become deeply involved with your own Ruby code. Justin first goes over installing Ruby on a variety of OS's and then important programming concepts and incorporating them with how they are utilized in Ruby.

This is a hands-on book with plenty of well-explained code. Each chapter has a standalone project in which a complete web application with specific features of a social networking site is emphasized. The final chapter of the book is a project that has a complete and fully developed social networking site. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the features of the Internet service and the market it is within. After extracting the main features of the service, the chapter goes into explaining how a clone of the service can be designed, followed by a short description of the technologies and platforms being used.

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Ruby on Rails is the revolutionary online programming tool that makes creating functional e-commerce web sites faster and easier than ever. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, you can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if you’re new to web programming.

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Everyone in the Ruby world seems to be talking about metaprogramming–how you can use it to remove duplication in your code and write elegant, beautiful programs. Now you can get in on the action as well.

In our first Ruby on Rails project, we started building a simple social network called Treebook. Now we're ready to add friendships, friend lists, and AJAX features using intermediate features of the Ruby on Rails application framework.

Ruby on Rails is a web application framework. Following the principles of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) and “Convention over Configuration”, Ruby-on-Rails enables web application developers to create dynamic and easily deployed websites in a very short amount of time. Based on the powerful Ruby language Rails is a set of Ruby templates and scripts used to build an entire web application and connect with a wide variety of database back-ends. VTC Author Al Anderson will help a beginner gain an understanding of the basics of web applications and work your way to developing a full-on web application. To begin learning Ruby-on-Rails simply click the links.

In our first Ruby on Rails project, we started building a simple social network called Treebook. Now we're ready to add friendships, friend lists, and AJAX features using intermediate features of the Ruby on Rails application