CORE RUBY [204]
Fundamentals– What is Ruby; Ruby download and installation; irb and SciTE; Free
format; Case sensitive; Comments; Statement delimiters; Documentation; Operators
(with precedence and associativity rules); Ruby editors; .rb file; Concept of an object and
that everything is an object in Ruby; Object class and its methods; Usage of puts, gets
methods; Ruby conventions; Garbage collection (3 lectures)
Variables and Constants– Name characters; Variables – local, instance, class, global;
Constants naming, rules and concept of scope operator ::; Naming conventions;
Dynamically typed; Usage of method type (2 lectures)
Numbers– Concept and usage with Class Numeric, Float, Integer, Fixnum and Bignum
(1 lecture)
Strings– String literals using single- and double-quotes and their differences; Usage of
#{expression}; Conversions using .to_i, .to_f, .to_s; Usage of <<; Concept of symbols;
Class String methods like chomp, reverse, length, upcase, downcase, swapcase,
capitalize, strip, length, index, slice, upcase!, downcase!, swapcase! and capitalize!.
(4 lectures)
Random Numbers– rand method (1 lecture)
Arrays– Concept; Class Array methods like delete, sort, length and each using do end
(2 lectures)
Concept of Ranges and Hashes (2 lecture)
Constructs– if else end elsif; while end; case when end (1 lecture)
Regular Expressions– Simple examples (2 lectures)
Methods– Writing own methods using def end; class and instance methods (with getter
and setter); return and concept of value returned by last statement in a method; variable
number of parameters using * (3 lectures)
Code Blocks– Using do end and { }; Usage of yield method; Concept of Proc and it’s
method call; lambda (3 lectures)
File I/O– File class and its method open (3 lectures)
Writing a class– Standard class Class; initialize; new methods; Access modifiers private
and protected; Usage of attr_reader, attr_writer, attr_accessor; Concept of inheritance and
using <; Using super (4 lectures)
Concept of Duck Typing (1 lecture)
Modules – Examples of writing a module; Usage of require and include; Concept of
mix-ins (1 lecture)
Exception handling– Exception class and its hierarchy; begin rescue ensure end;
(2 lectures)
Concept of Unit Testing (2 lectures)
Standard Classes and Modules– Usage of Dir, Time, Thread, Range, IO, Module, GC,
Kernel, Math – usage (3 lectures)
Recommended Books:
a. Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas
b. Learn to Program by Chris Pine
c. Ruby For Rails by David Black
d. Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper
Reference http://www.unipune.ernet.in/stud_info/Syllabi/Syllabus_2008.html
|
No responses found. Be the first to respond...
|