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by Yen 3972 days ago
Is this book actually teaching programming using the Ruby language? It's a pretty fundamental assumption, but I actually can't tell, given the web site.

As far as I can gather, Ruby is the name of the main character, and it explores programming concepts in general, but does not actually 'teach coding'.

I can't actually find the text of the book, though...

Edit: other comments in the thread seem to indicate that it does not teach actual coding, and does not use the Ruby language.

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Check the website: http://www.helloruby.com/about

I can't find any explicit mention of the Ruby programming language being used as an example, but it's pretty clear that the name of the protagonist is not an accident. The book itself doesn't seem to dive too deeply into actual code, though.