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The Ruby programming language is perfect for beginners: easy to learn, powerful, and fun to use! But wouldn't it be more fun if you were learning with the help of some wizards and dragons?
Ruby Wizardry is a playful, illustrated tale that will teach you how to program in Ruby by taking you on a fantastical journey. As you follow the adventures of young heroes Ruben and Scarlet, you ll learn real programming skills, like how to: Use fundamental concepts like variables, symbols, arrays, and strings Work with Ruby hashes to create a programmable breakfast menu Control program flow with loops…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The Ruby programming language is perfect for beginners: easy to learn, powerful, and fun to use! But wouldn't it be more fun if you were learning with the help of some wizards and dragons?

Ruby Wizardry is a playful, illustrated tale that will teach you how to program in Ruby by taking you on a fantastical journey. As you follow the adventures of young heroes Ruben and Scarlet, you ll learn real programming skills, like how to:
Use fundamental concepts like variables, symbols, arrays, and strings
Work with Ruby hashes to create a programmable breakfast menu
Control program flow with loops and conditionals to help the Royal Plumber
Test your wild and crazy ideas in IRB and save your programs as scripts
Create a class of mini-wizards, each with their own superpower!
Organize and reuse your code with methods and lists
Write your own amazing interactive stories using Ruby

Along the way, you ll meet colorful characters from around the kingdom, like the hacker Queen, the Off-White Knight, and Wherefore the minstrel. Ruby Wizardry will have you (or your little wizard) hooked on programming in no time.

For ages 10+ (and their parents!)
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Autorenporträt
Eric Weinstein
Rezensionen
"Speaking of Ruby, for real, if there's a kid in your life, get them a copy of Ruby Wizardry. It's so great."
Steve Klabnik, author of Rust for Rubyists, web celebrity

"By the best & most wonderful Eric Weinstein: Ruby Wizardry, a new programming book for kids."
Linda Liukas, author of Hello Ruby, Co-founder of Rails Girls

"Really psyched about Ruby Wizardry. Looks like the book I've been waiting for (and wanted to write) for years."
Jeremy McAnally, author of Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book

"One of a new breed of titles that seeks to help children and young adults to not only get introduced to programming but actually get good at it...highly recommended."
Becky Walton, MLIS, Ingram Collection Development

"I can see this book mentioned years to come as this generation reminisces about how they learned to program."
Ruby Learning

"An extremely valuable tool...entertaining and informative."
Digital Mayhem Radio

"The fun book is designed to make coding concepts and procedures easy to grasp for children."
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