Home | Amazing | Today | Tags | Publishers | Years | Account | Search 
Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals

Buy

Ruby is a powerful programming language with a focus on simplicity, but beneath its elegant syntax it performs countless unseen tasks.

Ruby Under a Microscope gives you a hands-on look at Ruby's core, using extensive diagrams and thorough explanations to show you how Ruby is implemented (no C skills required). Author Pat Shaughnessy takes a scientific approach, laying out a series of experiments with Ruby code to take you behind the scenes of how programming languages work. You'll even find information on JRuby and Rubinius (two alternative implementations of Ruby), as well as in-depth explorations of Ruby's garbage collection algorithm.

Ruby Under a Microscope will teach you:

  • How a few computer science concepts underpin Ruby's complex implementation
  • How Ruby executes your code using a virtual machine
  • How classes and modules are the same inside Ruby
  • How Ruby employs algorithms originally developed for Lisp
  • How Ruby uses grammar rules to parse and understand your code
  • How your Ruby code is translated into a different language by a compiler
No programming language needs to be a black box. Whether you're already intrigued by language implementation or just want to dig deeper into Ruby, you'll find Ruby Under a Microscope a fascinating way to become a better programmer.

Covers Ruby 2.x, 1.9 and 1.8
(HTML tags aren't allowed.)

Basic Electronics for Scientists and Engineers
Basic Electronics for Scientists and Engineers

Ideal for a one-semester course, this concise textbook covers basic electronics for undergraduate students in science and engineering. Beginning with the basics of general circuit laws and resistor circuits to ease students into the subject, the textbook then covers a wide range of topics, from passive circuits through to semiconductor-based...

SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide
SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide

Microsoft’s SharePoint platform is a complex, diverse technical tool designed to meet a range of business needs and uses. It requires several other platforms and applications for implementation, and it can be integrated with other external line of business applications. This diversity also applies to the numerous methods, tools, and...

Real-World Flash Game Development: How to Follow Best Practices AND Keep Your Sanity
Real-World Flash Game Development: How to Follow Best Practices AND Keep Your Sanity

This book covers Flash for the everyday developer. The average Flash developer doesn't have luxurious timelines, employers who understand the value of reusability, or the help of an information architect to design a usable experience. This book helps bridge the gap for these coders who may be used to C++, Java, or C# and want to move over...


Introducing Starling
Introducing Starling

Starling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases....

Molecular Electronics: Commercial Insights, Chemistry, Devices, Architecture and Programming
Molecular Electronics: Commercial Insights, Chemistry, Devices, Architecture and Programming

This book presents an in-depth discussion on molecular electronics in an easy-to-understand manner, aiming at chemists, computer scientists, surface scientists, physicists, and applied mathematicians. Lighter overviews are provided for the science-minded layperson and the high tech entrepreneur in this nanoscale science. The author has...

Performance Analysis of Transaction Processing Systems
Performance Analysis of Transaction Processing Systems
This book provides the tools necessary for predicting and improving the performance of real-time computing systems, with special attention given to the rapidly growing field of on-line traDsaCtion-processing (OLTP) systems. It is aimed at two audiences:

1. The system analyst who thorougbly understands the concepts of modem operating
...
©2021 LearnIT (support@pdfchm.net) - Privacy Policy