Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby

This book was definitely a source of clarity for my Computer Science Using Ruby course at Georgetown University. I like the way it translates computer jargon into something easy enough for a novice to understand and implement. Although I would have preferred a paper version to make notes about the coding in the margins, the Kindle version was nice in that you could easily navigate through the table of contents to go right to the section that was needed. I also found the logic-flow diagrams useful in trying to understand how the various codes operated. Overall I would say that this book was perfect for the course I was enrolled in and I feel that other introductory course students would feel the same way.

This book is very helpful for gaining a basic understanding of ruby. It takes you step by step through coding and explains the code in detail. It allows for a person who has never had any background in programing to gain a good basis for programming. I highly recommend this book.

Balanced presentation of class context and obstacle that is complexity. Exercises have the same balance. The same principle is tested twice, instead of including exercises that are twice as hard.

This book was very helpful. It presented the material in a straightforward way and used good examples. I had no previous programming experience, and it's hard to imagine a clearer beginning text.

This book was helpful for someone who has never taken computer science before. It takes you step by step without the rush one would feel.

Great product completely satisfied

kind of boring,but oh well, so is life

At many points the last two or three characters of a paragraph or heading are cut off. Bizarrely, the table of contents is in the back of the book.

Good