CS 3343/3341 Resources

CS 3723/3721
Programming Languages
Ruby Online Resources

Ruby Resources:

Ruby Home Page. Everything you could want, including:
- Ruby Nuby Page For the Ruby beginner
- Ruby Garden Wiki Links and Hints
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide -- Online textbook for Ruby 1.6 -- excellent resource. Write PPG for this book.
Ruby download -- the latest stable ruby: ruby-1.8.1.
Ruby documents download -- Ruby 1.4.6 Reference Manual.
Ruby 1.6 Library -- Ruby 1.6 Classes and methods.
Ruby Language Reference Manual 1.4.6 -- Terse, not too helpful.
Ruby FAQ.
Ruby Links lots of stuff, including more elementary manuals.
(Really) Quick Intro to Ruby Just a couple of pages of material.
37 reasons to like Ruby Just a couple of pages of material.
Pragmatic Programmer Book IN GERMAN.
Intro to Ruby Brief.
The Ruby Page Lots of links from author of The Ruby Way.
Ruby Cookbook Quite a bit of material, but IN PROGRESS.
Ruby Source Programs Executed and compared with many other languages.

Ruby versus Perl: oveview

Intro to Ruby for Perl programmers Brief overview.
Delightful Languages: Ruby PDF, In The Perl Review.
The Scalability of Ruby Presents versions of a cat program. Very similar to Python.
Ruby for Perl Programmers Not very thorough.
Ruby vs. Python vs. Perl Comparing the same program in the three languages.
Ruby Idioms Compared to Java and C++.
Ruby vs. Perl A few simple comparisons of code.
Ruby in 13 pages, some comparison with Perl IN GERMAN.
Ruby vs. Python 26 slides.

Perl Resources, for comparison with Ruby:

A Quick Introduction to Perl by Dr. Hugh Maynard. (This is the handout that Dr. Maynard uses in his systems programming class.)
Perl tutorial (local PDF)
Perl tutoral (external HTML), Perl tutoral (local copy)
Perl Documentation
- Perl Manual Pages
- Perl FAQs

Revision date: 2004-03-28. (Please use ISO 8601, the International Standard Date and Time Notation.)