1. What to do today: Brief history of Ruby General qualities/info
Start programming
syntax needed to program

2. RUBY! Ruby was created in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto in Japan
He created it out of the drive to create “a language more powerful than Perl and more object-oriented than Python”

3. Ruby is a scripting language
Ruby is a scripting language(like Perl), so that means(usually) that it is interpreted
Ruby uses an interpreter instead of a compiler
Advantages:
can program on the fly
no compile time, so many things are dynamic(typing, scoping, etc)‏
Disadvantages:
interpreted languages tend to be slower

4. Ruby is Object-Oriented
Ruby is a purely object-oriented language
“Everything you manipulate is an object, and the results of those manipulations are themselves objects”
EVERYTHING is an object
Start out with classes, then instances of classes, then instance variables, then methods, then method variables, etc...
Message passing is used to call methods

5. Let's start

6. Lets add some more...

7. More...

9. That was ugly, this is pretty...

10. Inheritance

12. Arrays/Hashes

14. Loops...

15. For...

16. Code Blocks

17. Code Blocks

18. Scoping Issues

19. Regular Expressions

20. Regular Expressions

21. Regular Expressions

22. Practice