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Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY (4 topics)

• What is Ruby
• What is it used for
• Installing Ruby?
• Ruby Basics - objects, regular expressions, arrays, hashes, Object Orientation

Session 2: RUBY LANGUAGE ELEMENTS (7 topics)

• Variables and constants
• Operators
• Assignments
• Integer, float and string formats
• Single and double quotes
• Here documents
• Labs

Session 3: CONTROL STRUCTURES (6 topics)

• Blocks and if statement
• Boolean and range operators
• Conditionals - if, unless, case
• Loops - while, for in, until
• break, next, retry and redo
• Labs

Session 4: CLASSES AND OBJECTS (7 topics)

• Objects, classes and methods
• Constructors and attributes
• Instance and class variables
• Local and global variables
• Class and object methods
• Including external files - load and require
• Labs

Session 5: INPUT AND OUTPUT IN RUBY (3 topics)

• Opening and closing files
• Reading from and writing to files
• Labs

Session 6: ARRAYS AND HASHES IN RUBY (7 topics)

• Arrays and hashes
• Building an array
• The %w shortcut
• Nesting arrays
• Hash keys
• Iiterators
• Labs

Session 7: OBJECT ORIENTATION (10 topics)

• Inheritance
• Base classes and subclasses
• What's inherited
• Overriding
• Abstract classes
• Polymorphism
• Multiple Inheritances
• Class structure
• Visibility
• Labs

Session 8: CLASSES AND OBJECT SCOPING (8 topics)

• Public, private and protected visibility
• Singletons and defs
• Inheritance mixins
• Destructors and garbage collection
• Namespaces and modules
• Hooks
• Freezing objects
• Labs

Session 9: OBJECT ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES (5 topics)

• Clusters of classes
• Programming and method standards
• Formal Methods
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Views

Session 10: STRINGS AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS (6 topics)

• Meta Characters
• Anchors, literals, character groups and counts
• Matching in Ruby
• Modifiers i, o, x and m
• Pattern matching variables
• Labs

Session 11: SPECIAL VARIABLES AND PSEUDO-VARIABLES (6 topics)

• ARGV and $0
• Special variables
• Environment variables
• Pseudo-variables
• Reserved words in Ruby
• Labs

Session 12: EXCEPTIONS (4 topics)

• begin and end
• Raise and rescue
• Throw and catch
• labs