bulio

I created a tutorial to help me while learning Ruby. I've decided to post it for all to see Please let me know of any syntax errors if you see them, so I may fix them.

Classes

Library example:

Ok, so I want to start a library. In the library, I need books. We need to make a basic class, books. This is where all the books will go.

We'll start off by creating a basic class for all the books.
In there, I just made a general class, books. Every book in the library will have a title, year, and an author. The class tells the computer that information.

Now lets enter a book into the database:
Now we just added book1 to our library databse! book1.inspect shows us some information about the file.

Now we want to try and get all the book information. So we will do this:
That will output:
Now thats some headway!

Inheritance and Messages

Inheritance allows you to create a class that is a specialization of another class. (Think of it as a subclass). For example, our library has the book conecept class Books. Now we will make a specific class for a genre of book.
Right there, we made a class category called Programming Books. So If the program were to see a programming book, it would use this subclass. We also used our basic variables, and added a new class specific one, language.

Note:
< Tells ruby that ProgrammingBooks is a subclass of Books.
That puts Learning C++ into the programming category. It also gives us information about the book via Books.to_s

**Note*

You can get info using things such as Book.name etc. what ever comes after the . is a variable that you've set.

Cerulean

Should the line not be Other than that, pretty nice high level intro.

edit: Maybe fix the indenting also?

coldDeath

Nice that tutorial is clear and understandable, i don't know any Ruby, but this has shown me what it is like. I would hve tested it all out, but atm i am learning python GUI and network programming, so i would probably get confused and muddled up lol.

Good tutorial.

Infinite Recursion

looks good. are you planning on extending this tutorial to cover other areas?

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bulio

I'll probably cover more as I go along, yes but for now I need to learn more

AbhishekKr

gud job done m8

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