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This is the archived website of SI 413 from the Fall 2012 semester. Feel free to browse around; you may also find more recent offerings at my teaching page.

Created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995. Part scripting language, part object-oriented, part functional, Ruby is a modern language with something to offer to everyone. It is in interpreted language (interpreter written in C) and has a significant standard library.

Useful Links

• The Ruby homepage contains just about everything you would need. The canonical (C) implementation is available under Downloads (we are using version 1.8.7), and the Documentation link has all the help you will need and more.
• Wikipedia page
• 99 bottles of beer program.

How I will run your code

Save your program in a file called proj.rb.

I will test your code in the same environment as the lab machines in MI 302, using the commands

  /usr/bin/ruby proj.rb

Phase 1 Requirements

For this language, you need to implement modifications A, B, C, D, F, G, H, and I. See the Phase 1 page for details on what this means.

Phase 2

See the Phase 2 Page for the list of suggested problems. Of the ones listed, I recommend the following as being most well-suited for ruby:

3. Matrix Calculator
4. Image Creator
5. Game Scheduler
7. TODO list
9. Game with hidden agenda
11. Guess the language
12. Find the missing digits
13. ??? (you choose!)