Learn to Program

Programming used to be pretty hard. You needed to know a lot of arcane details to make a computer do anything useful. But then again, Model T cars used to come with two full pages of starting instructions. Today, you just turn the key, and the engine fires. Fortunately, cars evolved and became easier to use. Programming has become easier as well.

This book shows you how to write programs using Ruby, a popular, modern, and easy-to-use programming language. Unlike some other current programming…