Ruby Programming Course

Ruby Programming Course Outline

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