Course description
Ruby is a high level Interpreted, Object Oriented, rapid development language deployed in many scenarios in the modern world.
This Ruby Programming course is designed to give delegates the knowledge to develop and maintain Ruby applications.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Who will the Course Benefit?Developers who are required to write, maintain and test Ruby applications. This is an ideal course for anyone who wants to be able to make sense of code, if not actually to produce it.
Course ObjectivesThis course aims to provide the delegate with the knowledge to be able to produce simple, object oriented Ruby applications that exploit all core elements of the language to solve business problems.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Delegates attending this course should have some previous programming experience and be able to define general programming concepts including: compilation, execution, variables, arrays, sequence, selection, iteration, functions, objects, and classes. Moreover delegates should be able to navigate the filesystem (on the command line ideally), edit and save text files and browse the web. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-requisite Introduction to Programming course.
Experience to the level as demonstrated in this course is recommended:
- Introduction to Programming
Training Course Content
Ruby Programming Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- What is Ruby
- What is it used for
- Installing Ruby?
- Ruby Basics - objects, regular expressions, arrays, hashes, Object Orientation
- Variables and constants
- Operators
- Assignments
- Integer, float and string formats
- Single and double quotes
- Here documents
- Labs
- Blocks and if statement
- Boolean and range operators
- Conditionals - if, unless, case
- Loops - while, for in, until
- break, next, retry and redo
- Labs
- Objects, classes and methods
- Constructors and attributes
- Instance and class variables
- Local and global variables
- Class and object methods
- Including external files - load and require
- Labs
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 5: INPUT AND OUTPUT IN RUBY- Opening and closing files
- Reading from and writing to files
- Labs
- Arrays and hashes
- Building an array
- The %w shortcut
- Nesting arrays
- Hash keys
- Iterators
- Labs
- Inheritance
- Base classes and subclasses
- What's inherited
- Overriding
- Abstract classes
- Polymorphism
- Multiple Inheritances
- Class structure
- Visibility
- Labs
- Public, private and protected visibility
- Singletons and defs
- Inheritance mixins
- Destructors and garbage collection
- Namespaces and modules
- Hooks
- Freezing objects
- Labs
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 9: OBJECT ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES- Clusters of classes
- Programming and method standards
- Formal Methods
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- Views
- Meta Characters
- Anchors, literals, character groups and counts
- Matching in Ruby
- Modifiers i, o, x and m
- Pattern matching variables
- Labs
- ARGV and $0
- Special variables
- Environment variables
- Pseudo-variables
- Reserved words in Ruby
- Labs
- begin and end
- Raise and rescue
- Throw and catch
- labs
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Average rating 5
Great Tony - good course that
Excellent course, thoroughly provided an understanding of basics needed for Ruby programming. Very well taught in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
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