Practical Ruby Projects

My Ruby book Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer is in stores!


(Practical Ruby Projects)

I've been writing for the past year, and I'm crazy about the result. This is the sort of book that I love to read, and hopefully that shines through.

Practical Ruby Projects is based on a few ideas:

  • "Hands on" is always better.
  • You can cover more if you trust your reader to know the basics.
  • Programming can be creative and exciting.
  • Getting started is hard. Anything that makes that easy is good.

This book covers a lot of projects (all done in Ruby, of course!):

  • Animation
  • Music
  • Simulation
  • Turn Based Startegy Games
  • RubyCocoa
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Implementing Lisp
  • Parsing

PS- All the source code is available under the MIT license!

posted on: 01/04/2008 | path: /tech