Month: April 2005

Learning Ruby – Day 5

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date April 1, 2005
Categories In Programming, Ruby on Rails, Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days
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Day 5 is all about objects and their methods. Remember a few months back when Apple introduced the Shuffle? Everyone was up-in-arms about it’s lack of screen and how it was useless an mp3 player without a screen is. When in-fact, the lack of screen simplifies and improves the device a great deal. Ruby is […]

Learning Ruby – Day 4

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date April 1, 2005
Categories In Programming, Ruby on Rails, Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days
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Day 4 – Iterators. First, all chapters in programming books should start with quotes from Steve Martin (t). Second, what’s a language without a convoluted loop syntax to geek out on? Geeez. I thought the purpose of learning to program was the same as learning Arabic from the Defense Language Institute – “because you can’t.” […]