Ruby Quickstart ("Tutorial on a few pages")
Iwan van der Kleyn
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
James Britt
Randy Kramer
> 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
Iwan van der Kleyn
> 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
Iwan van der Kleyn
That did the trick, thanks