30 review for Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby

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   5 out of 5

   Bonix – Feb 26, 2014

   Well, they don't joke around when they say about basics. That said, it is a good introduction to programming and CS, I wish I had started to learn with a book like this. But do we need yet another introduction book to programming? I guess not. But I enjoyed how the book takes its time to explain what is the difference of bit and byte, binary and hexadecimal numbers. As a self-taught programmer, there are a few points that I had never taken the time to understand, but they are rare. So if you are Well, they don't joke around when they say about basics. That said, it is a good introduction to programming and CS, I wish I had started to learn with a book like this. But do we need yet another introduction book to programming? I guess not. But I enjoyed how the book takes its time to explain what is the difference of bit and byte, binary and hexadecimal numbers. As a self-taught programmer, there are a few points that I had never taken the time to understand, but they are rare. So if you are a seasoned programmer or have a bit more than the basics, this book is not for you. But I would definitely recommend this to a total beginner.

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   5 out of 5

   Hussaya – Sep 28, 2017

   One of my favorite Ruby programming book. It is for beginner, easy to understand and come with the exercises on each chapter.

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   5 out of 5

   Benjamin – Feb 18, 2017

   As someone who has returned to computer science and programming after a long break, I've been trying to get up to speed (again) with both basics and more advanced topics. I've also been keeping an eye out for a good introduction for my wife, who has some interest in cs after working in librarianship for a while. But I'm not sure this is that book. Some of the book is very on-target as an intro book to cs/programming: how to approach a problem (state the steps, think about control flow), the usual As someone who has returned to computer science and programming after a long break, I've been trying to get up to speed (again) with both basics and more advanced topics. I've also been keeping an eye out for a good introduction for my wife, who has some interest in cs after working in librarianship for a while. But I'm not sure this is that book. Some of the book is very on-target as an intro book to cs/programming: how to approach a problem (state the steps, think about control flow), the usual foundations (binary numbers, variables, loops, arrays and hashes). Some of this gets a little more advanced, but still necessary (searching/sorting); and some of it gets into object-oriented programming which may or may not be necessary. Frankly, I think an intro to cs shouldn't (these days) consider OO foundational without mentioning other programming paradigms. And talk about OO can get a little hairy if you've never been exposed to it before. And, frankly, though it is hard for me to judge, a lot of the language here seems pretty dense--too dense for an introductory book even when it's covering introductory topics. That said, I do think the searching/sorting chapter is pretty good for what it covers--finally, a good explanation of radix short. Though, really, even there, the authors try to keep the book manageably sized and do so with that time-honored Fermat technique: "This topic is too large for this size, so go find some other book." That's what you'd expect from an intro book, and yet I wasn't really into what they choose to go into and what they choose to put off.

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   4 out of 5

   Anton Antonov – Jun 04, 2015

   CS with Ruby is a great combination of classic Cs literature and a modern approach. The choice of Ruby makes the coding as close as possible to English. The head first theory before any programming remains true to any CS book, but CS with Ruby skips a few parts of the compilation and interpretation done by compilers or interpreters, to ease the reader. The chapters are nicely organized with really idiomatic summary of the keywords mentioned in each one of the chapters, before going in the exercise CS with Ruby is a great combination of classic Cs literature and a modern approach. The choice of Ruby makes the coding as close as possible to English. The head first theory before any programming remains true to any CS book, but CS with Ruby skips a few parts of the compilation and interpretation done by compilers or interpreters, to ease the reader. The chapters are nicely organized with really idiomatic summary of the keywords mentioned in each one of the chapters, before going in the exercises. The exercises are surprisingly few though. Yes, they are enough to grasp the basics, but there could be more for the motivated ones. Reasons why the book is a 4: The installation and setup parts are something that may need more attention. It leaves too much to assume and predict by the reader. This could be avoided by investing 5 more pages into that. There is a dedicated searching and sorting chapter but not a whole one for Data structures. This is important and worth 30 pages. Last but not least it needs a refresher addressing the issues and using a newer Ruby version. However I would recommended CD with Ruby to anyone starting CS Bs or having the programming basics down or so and wanting to learn more CS. Ex read Ruby Wizardry and then reading this one.

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   4 out of 5

   Sefa – Mar 13, 2015

   Computer science basics in Ruby. Really basic stuff, except the last few chapters. I don't see the point for teaching objects, inheritance, etc. in an introductory programming book/course. It's a decent book in general, though. Computer science basics in Ruby. Really basic stuff, except the last few chapters. I don't see the point for teaching objects, inheritance, etc. in an introductory programming book/course. It's a decent book in general, though.

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   5 out of 5

   Sarah Kuehnle – Jan 14, 2015

   A great introduction to CS with lots of examples and code to play with. Unfortunately, as the book progresses, there are a fair amount of grammatical and code errors. I found the code fun to debug, but the grammatical errors are annoying.

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   4 out of 5

   Eric Guzman – Aug 13, 2013

   Aprender ciencias de la computación, a crear algoritmos y claro a programar, utilizando el lenguaje más fácil para aprender, un muy buen libro, se lo recomiendo a todos mis colegas desarrolladores. aprender desde otro punto de vista nunca está mal.

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   5 out of 5

   Janice – Sep 09, 2013

   good first concepts of programming book. i picked this up to see some basics in ruby, not worth it as a language introduction.

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   5 out of 5

   Jayson Virissimo – Apr 09, 2014

   I wish this book would have been my introduction to computer science rather than whatever Java textbook we used in CSE110.

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    4 out of 5

    ᴀᴍɪᴛ – Apr 02, 2014

    Very basic but a good read. First comers content.

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    5 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

    Steven – Jun 21, 2013

    Extremely basic introduction to computer science programming in Ruby.

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    5 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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