What is Ruby? Beginner’s Guide to Ruby Programming Language

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Ruby a programming language

Are you trying to start a tech career and thinking about learn some programming languages,then I believe you should start with a Ruby programming language, since it is one of the famous programming languages one need to know as a programmer and it also famous with jobs, as in most tech jobs will required programmers with Ruby’s knowledge.

Ruby can be described as a open source programming language that is very dynamic. This is a scripting language that can be interpreted easily, flexible as well as object oriented. In 1993,Yukihito Matsumoto crested and developed the Ruby programming language. The whole essence of Ruby was to make it less complicated for the users because it has a natural syntax which make it easy for users to write and read it.

Features of the Ruby programming language
-Ruby is object oriented meaning that everything in the language is made up of objects which communicate with one another
-It is a dynamic programming language
-It has diverse means of solving problems
-It goal is to write very clear readable concise code
-It is a flexible programming language which means one can do anything with it

Companies and users of Ruby programming language
Ruby are used for online sites like Kickstarter, Hulu, GitHub, Twitter. Other users are ZenDesk, Basecamp, Urban dictionary etc.

Pros of using Ruby programming language
-For Ruby, the development code in use is really faster than other programming language.
-Ruby has a dynamic typing which help project while doing changes in further stages of development.
-With Ruby programming language you will be enjoying code code quality, the code in use is intuitive.
-Maintaining is very easy here because the code is intuitive which makes understanding and maintaining it to be easy
-Ruby programming language focus more on simplicity and productivity.
-Ruby programming language uses duck typing as well. 

Uses of Ruby programming language
Ruby programming language which is a general purpose scripting language can be used for the following: 
Web application
System utilities
Biology and medicine
Parsing
Web servers
Backups
Database work

How to learn Ruby programming language
-Find out what you want to build,like have a project
-Get tutorials on what will get you to your goals you can use YouTube and start learning
-Study the code and use it for your project
-Read programming books
If possible attend college and do some course either online or offline.

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