Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ruby Is For Fun
New fun book about Ruby programming language
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ruby Is For Fun launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hello Ruby▲107An illustrated storybook teaching Ruby to kids
2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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A Ruby programming tutorial for journalists, researchers, investigators, scientists, analysts and anyone else in the business of finding information and making it useful and visible. Programming experience not required, but provided.
2011 · ruby.bastardsbook.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · learnbyexample.github.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · practical-go-lessons.com · its alternatives →
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A book about learning Ruby & coding in general
2016 · learnrubythehardway.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wrote a book on programming called The Elements of Code. I put the entire book online here: https://elementsofcode.io/ When mentoring (usually new) programmers, I noticed there were a few common mistakes that seemed to account for about 80% of the complexity in their code. I couldn’t find a concise guide to fixing those mistakes, so I decided to write one. The title is an homage to The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, which is the classic guide for communicating well using prose. That guide is quite tactical in nature, and I wanted to parallel its focus in The…
2021 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →
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Great book with a low barrier to entry for learning Haskell
2016 · haskellbook.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · learneroo.com · its alternatives →
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https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j... This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It's about how to organize programs around data "as plain data" and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and significantly easier understand. Java has changed radically over the last several years. It has picked up all kinds of new language features which support data oriented programming (records,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Clever solutions to classic programming problems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The origins of the Ruby programming language
2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · getprogrammingwithclojure.com · its alternatives →
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Awesome Ruby▲146The essential Ruby to build modern Apps and Web Apps
2015 · awesome-ruby.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · learnpythontherightway.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · best-ruby.com · its alternatives →
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A Day in Code▲126A picture book written in code (with English translations!)
2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Turns Ruby into a versatile command line utility. Contribute to thisredone/rb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pythonbooks ranks the best Python books for beginners, intermediate programmers and 15 different specializations.
2017 · pythonbooks.org · its alternatives →
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Write powerful Ruby code that is easy to maintain and change
2016 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →
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Learn everything about building web APIs with Ruby.
2016 · master-ruby-web-apis.samurails.com · its alternatives →
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Start coding today! Learn Python from the ground up with this easy-to-follow, hands-on guide.
2012 · manning.com · its alternatives →
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