Ruby Programming Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

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 – objects, regular expressions, arrays, hashes, Object Orientation

Session 2: RUBY LANGUAGE ELEMENTS
• Variables and constants
• Operators
• Assignments
• Integer, float and string formats
• Single and double quotes
• Here documents
• Labs

Session 3: CONTROL STRUCTURES
• Blocks and if statement
• Boolean and range operators
• Conditionals – if, unless, case
• Loops – while, for in, until
• break, next, retry and redo
• Labs

Session 4: CLASSES AND OBJECTS
• Objects, classes and methods
• Constructors and attributes
• Instance and class variables
• Local and global variables
• Class and object methods
• Including external files – load and require
• Labs

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 5: INPUT AND OUTPUT IN RUBY
• Opening and closing files
• Reading from and writing to files
• Labs

Session 6: ARRAYS AND HASHES IN RUBY
• Arrays and hashes
• Building an array
• The %w shortcut
• Nesting arrays
• Hash keys
• Iterators
• Labs

Session 7: OBJECT ORIENTATION
• Inheritance
• Base classes and subclasses
• What’s inherited
• Overriding
• Abstract classes
• Polymorphism
• Multiple Inheritances
• Class structure
• Visibility
• Labs

Session 8: CLASSES AND OBJECT SCOPING
• Public, private and protected visibility
• Singletons and defs
• Inheritance mixins
• Destructors and garbage collection
• Namespaces and modules
• Hooks
• Freezing objects
• Labs

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 9: OBJECT ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES
• Clusters of classes
• Programming and method standards
• Formal Methods
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Views

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
• Labs

Session 11: SPECIAL VARIABLES AND PSEUDO-VARIABLES
• ARGV and $0
• Special variables
• Environment variables
• Pseudo-variables
• Reserved words in Ruby
• Labs

Session 12: EXCEPTIONS
• begin and end
• Raise and rescue
• Throw and catch
• labs