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Ruby Quickstart ("Tutorial on a few pages"

Yuu

2/28/2005 10:50:00 AM

Hi there,

I'm giving an in-company presentation about a rather advanced project my
team has been busy with over the last few months. Ruby has been chosen
for one of the reference implementations. However, most of my collegaes
are not familiar with Ruby.

So what I am looking for is a brief and concise "mini tutorial" or
"quick start" for Ruby. One which I can distribute among the
participants before the presentation, so they can get quickly aqainted
with the language. So ideally, it shoudl be only a page of three,at most
four, covering the essential aspects of Ruby.

Does anyone know if and where I can a tutorial like that?

Regards,

Iwan
4 Answers

James Britt

2/28/2005 3:01:00 PM

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Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm giving an in-company presentation about a rather advanced project my
> team has been busy with over the last few months. Ruby has been chosen
> for one of the reference implementations. However, most of my collegaes
> are not familiar with Ruby.
>
> So what I am looking for is a brief and concise "mini tutorial" or
> "quick start" for Ruby. One which I can distribute among the
> participants before the presentation, so they can get quickly aqainted
> with the language. So ideally, it shoudl be only a page of three,at most
> four, covering the essential aspects of Ruby.
>
> Does anyone know if and where I can a tutorial like that?

You may find some useful presentations here.

http://rubyforge.org/docman/?gr...
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera...
http://www.ruby-doc.org/...
http://pine.fm/Learn...
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-...


James

Randy Kramer

2/28/2005 5:05:00 PM

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On Monday 28 February 2005 05:50 am, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> So what I am looking for is a brief and concise "mini tutorial" or
> "quick start" for Ruby. One which I can distribute among the
> participants before the presentation, so they can get quickly aqainted
> with the language. So ideally, it shoudl be only a page of three,at most
> four, covering the essential aspects of Ruby.

Maybe its not necessary in this case, but I always want to think about what
the audience already knows. I guess, in this day and age, if they are all
programmers, they are all familiar with object oriented concepts? Do they
all program in some other (specific) language? If so, what is it (3 to 4
pages comparing that language to Ruby might be ideal.

regards,
Randy Kramer

Yuu

2/28/2005 7:55:00 PM

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> If so, what is it (3 to 4
> pages comparing that language to Ruby might be ideal.

They are all experienced Java and/or C# developers with some PHP skills.
Apart from basic syntax (syntax matters, even for experienced
programmers), I guess the biggest stubling block will be:
= more OOP ( 5.times you know ;-)
= blocks
= Ruby's dynamism

Of course I will be able to make some sheets, but probably someone else
did a better job already.

Regards,

Iwan

Yuu

2/28/2005 8:06:00 PM

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> You may find some useful presentations here.
>
> http://rubyforge.org/docman/?gr...

That did the trick, thanks