Jumpstart Lab Makes Brief Ruby Tutorial Available

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Kate Bladow

For those of you who program and are called upon to learn new languages quickly: Jumpstart Lab, an organization that aims to make computer science accessible for "normal" people, posted the course materials from their Ruby Jumpstart course. This includes their Ruby in 100 Minutes tutorial that quickly covers the basics of the language.

For those of you who don't program and have never heard of Ruby, it's a newer language that supposedly makes the programmer's job easier. It was influenced by several other programming languages, including my favorite, Scheme. If you want to try Ruby out and get a feel for programming, check out try ruby! for a quick tour. (Take the tour. If you haven't programmed before, it's a really neat, easy to see what it is like. Take the tour.)

Thanks to Digital Sista (AKA Shireen Mitchell) for pointing this out. - K

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Jeff Casimir - August 11, 2009 7:45 PM

Thanks for posting the blurb & link!

Ruby is surprisingly older than it seems, though it's really only become popular in the past few years. I think of it a little bit like Mac OS X: great for beginners because it makes simple things so easy, but great for experts because it has such a powerful framework.

Kate - August 11, 2009 10:29 PM

Jeff -

Thank you for commenting. I've heard great things about Ruby, so your materials provide an easy way for me to learn a little bit more about the language. - K

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