Introduction to Ruby for Perl programmers

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Slide index:

• 0.0 What is Ruby?
  • 0.1 Ruby highlights and features
  • 0.2 Simple Ruby program
  • 0.3 Ruby versus other languages
• 1.0 Classes
  • 1.1 Methods
  • 1.2 Simple project
• 2.0 [Syntax] Lexical structure
  • 2.1 Operators
  • 2.2 Control structures
• 3.0 [Built-in types] Arrays/Hashes
  • 3.1 Numbers
  • 3.2 Strings
  • 3.3 String methods
  • 3.4 Ranges
  • 3.5 Regular expressions
  • 3.6 Regular expression example
  • 3.7 Enhancing built-in classes
• 4.0 Caveats for Perl programmers
  • 4.1 More Caveats
• 5.0 Basic Input and Output
  • 5.1 More about IO
  • 5.2 Networking
  • 5.3 GUIs in Tk, GTK+
• 6.0 Ruby usage
  • 6.1 Downloading and License
  • 6.2 Ruby history
• 7.0 Thank you