Logo

Learn to Program by Chris Pine

Large book cover: Learn to Program

Learn to Program
by

Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN/ASIN: 0976694042
ISBN-13: 9780976694045
Number of pages: 176

Description:
Chris Pine takes a thorough, but light-hearted approach that teaches you how to program in Ruby with a minimum of fuss or bother. Starting with small, simple one-line programs to calculate your age in seconds, you'll see how to have your webpage send you email, to shuffle your music more intelligently, to rename your photos from your digital camera, and more. You'll learn the same technology used to drive modern dynamic websites and large, professional applications.

Home page url

Download or read it online for free here:
Read online
(online html)

Similar books

Book cover: So You Want to Learn to Program?So You Want to Learn to Program?
by - CreateSpace
Learn to program a computer without the jargon and complexity of many programming books. This book engages through media and then introduces the concepts of structured programming. You will learn to program as you make animations and games.
(20620 views)
Book cover: Watch What I Do:  Programming by DemonstrationWatch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration
by - The MIT Press
Programming by Demonstration is a method that allows users to create programs by demonstrating what the program should do. The book describes 18 implementations of Programming by Demonstration, and discusses the problems for this method.
(16029 views)
Book cover: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer ProgrammingConcepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
by - The MIT Press
Covered topics: concurrency, state, distributed programming, constraint programming, formal semantics, declarative concurrency, message-passing concurrency, forms of data abstraction, building GUIs, transparency approach to distributed programming.
(25827 views)
Book cover: Windows ProgrammingWindows Programming
- Wikibooks
This book aims to be a comprehensive source for any developer who is interested in programming for the Windows platform. The reader is assumed to have a previous knowledge of the programming languages involved: C, C++, and Visual Basic.
(18594 views)