Ruby Programming Course

The following topics will be covered during this course:

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials

• Course Structure and Agenda

• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: Introduction to Ruby

• What is Ruby?

• What is it used for?

• Installing Ruby

• Ruby Basics

Session 2: Ruby Language Elements

• Variables and constants

• Operators

• Assignments

• Integer, float and string formats

• Single and double quotes

• Here documents

Session 3: Control Structures

• Blocks and if statements

• Boolean and range operators

• Conditionals - else and case

• Loops - while, for, until

• Break, next, retry and redo

Session 4: Classes and Objects

• Objects, classes and methods

• Constructors and attributes

• Instance and class variables

• Local and global variables

• Class and instance methods

• Including external files - load and require

Session 5: Input and Output in Ruby

• Opening and closing files

• Reading from and writing to files

Session 6: Arrays and Hashes in Ruby

• Arrays and hashes

• Building an array

• The %w shortcut

• Nested arrays

• Iterators

Session 7: Object Orientation

• Inheritance

• Base classes and subclasses

• What's inherited

• Overriding

• Abstract classes

• Polymorphism

• Multiple Inheritance

• Class structure

• Visibility

Session 8: Classes and Object Scoping

• Singletons

• Namespaces and modules

• Mixins

• Destructors and garbage collection

• Freezing objects

Session 9: Object Orientation Techniques

• Programming and method standards

• Formal Methods

• Unified Modelling Language (UML)

Session 10: Strings and Regular Expressions

• Meta Characters

• Anchors, literals, character groups and counts

• Matching in Ruby

• Modifiers i, o, x and m

• Pattern matching variables

Session 11: Special Variables and Pseudo - Variables

• ARGV and $0

• Special variables

• Environment variables

• Pseudo-variables

• Reserved words

Session 12: Exceptions

• Begin and end

• Raise and rescue

• Throw and catch