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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

You're reading from Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red Get up and running with the Red language for full-stack development

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789130706

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Ivo Balbaert

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Red's Mission FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up for Development

3. Using Words, Values, and Types

4. Code-Controlling Structures

5. Working with Series and Blocks

6. Using Functions and Objects

7. Working with Files

8. Parsing Data

9. Composing Visual Interfaces

10. Advanced Red

1. Assessments

2. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Technical requirements

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Authors (1)

Ivo Balbaert

Ivo Balbaert

Ivo Balbaert is a lecturer in web programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen, a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in applied physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked for 20 years in the software industry as a developer and consultant in several companies, and for 10 years as project manager at the University Hospital of Antwerp. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (at KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerpen). He also wrote an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails, Programmeren met Ruby en Rails, published by Van Duuren Media. In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way to Go, published by iUniverse. He has written a number of introductory books for new programming languages, notably Dart, Julia, Rust, and Red, all published by Packt.

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