bastardsbook.comThe Bastards Book of Ruby

A Programming Primer for Counting and Other Unconventional Tasks About Contents Resources Blog Contact Note: As of 2015, consider the Bastards Book to be in maintenance mode. I currently work at Stanford’s Computational Journalism Lab and am slowly working on an overhaul, but it may be awhile. The concepts in this book are evergreen, but the version of Ruby is most definitely not, so follow it with some caution. The Bastards Book of Ruby is an introduction to programming and its practical uses for journalists, researchers, scientists, analysts, and anyone else whose job is to seek out, make sense from, and show the hard-to-find data. This does not require being "good at computers", having a background in programming, or the desire (yet) to be a full-fledged hacker/developer. It just takes an eagerness to be challenged. New: Check out the spinoff book, Bastards Book of Regular Expressions About the Bastards Book Why this book was written , what it covers , frequently asked questions , and author info . Table of Contents Four sections and roughly 30 chapters , in various stages of completion. First Chapter Installing Ruby Updates and Feedback Send feedback and comments to the author, Dan Nguyen, at dan@danwin.com Or, communicate/critique using any of these channels: Bastards Book Dan Twitter @bastardsbook @dancow Blog blog.bastardsbook.com danwin.com The Book Version: 0.101 (typos fixed, 8/5/2012) About Contents Resources Blog Sister book: The BB of Photography Twitter: @bastardsbook Facebook Author Info Dan Nguyen is a journalist in New York Email: dan@danwin.com Blog: danwin.com Twitter: @dancow Tumblr: eyeheartnewyork Flickr Copyright...