The Ruby Programming Language: Everything You Need to Know by Davd Flanagan (Eng

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Ruby Programming Language by Davd Flanagan, Yukihiro Mataumoto A guide to Ruby that provides coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It explains the language from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: * David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. * Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. * why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented example code -- Rubys facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency.An entire chapter is devoted to Rubys metaprogramming capabilities. The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby language definitively but without the formality of a language specification. It is written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby, and for current Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding and increase their mastery of the language. Author Biography David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with OReilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and children in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a blog at iro Matsumoto ("Matz"), the creator of Ruby, is a professional programmer who worked for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. Matz is also known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. Hes released several open source products, including cmail, the emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in emacs lisp. Ruby is his first piece of software that has become known outside of Japan. Table of Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari Review "... Als Grundlagenwerk mit fast kanonischem Charakter bekommt das Werk wohl bald einen festen Platz in vielen Regalen." iX, August 2008 Long Description The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented example code -- Rubys facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency. An entire chapter is devoted to Rubys metaprogramming capabilities. The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby language definitively but without the formality of a language specification. It is written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby, and for current Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding and increase their mastery of the language. Details ISBN0596516177 Short Title RUBY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Publisher OReilly Media Language English ISBN-10 0596516177 ISBN-13 9780596516178 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Country of Publication United States Series Oreilly Place of Publication Sebastopol DOI 10.1604/9780596516178 Subtitle Everything You Need to Know AU Release Date 2008-02-19 NZ Release Date 2008-02-19 UK Release Date 2008-02-19 Imprint OReilly Media Edited by Fu-Chan Wei Birth 1945 Affiliation Consultant Urological Surgeon, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, and Visiting Professor, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Position Contributor Qualifications MD Author Yukihiro Mataumoto Pages 448 DEWEY 005.133 Illustrations 1, black & white illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational Publication Date 2008-03-04 US Release Date 2008-03-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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