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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure
Posted: January 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM by Ben Nadel
About two months ago, I started reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate . I went into the book with a significant understanding of only two programming Languages: ColdFusion and Javascript. Now, not only do I have a sense of how many programming languages there are out there (Tate's list of 7 was selected from over a hundred language... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Ruby - Day 3
Posted: November 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM by Ben Nadel
In the last day of our Ruby overview in Seven Langauges in Seven Weeks , we learned a lot about Classes, Modules, and Mixins. In Ruby, you can have traditional single-class inheritance. However, Ruby also allows for cohesive pieces of functionality (Modules) to be included in and shared by multiple classes. Unlike a CFInclude approach in ColdFusi... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Ruby - Day 2
Posted: November 22, 2010 at 9:58 AM by Ben Nadel
I just finished Ruby - Day 2 in my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book . Day 2 definitely kicked it up a notch from day 1 . I love how much the author - Bruce Tate - is really pushing us to look things up. He gives us problems that aren't too difficult, but they definitely require a lot of independent study in order to solve. And, while this is ... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Ruby - Day 1
Posted: November 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM by Ben Nadel
As I blogged about earlier, I've just started the new Pragmatic Programmers' book, Seven Languages in Seven Weeks . Each of the languages comes with homework assignments which I shall be discussing on the blog. I just finished Ruby - Day 1. HW1 : Print the string "Hello, world." # Print the string "Hello World." To start off, we're going to ... read more »
