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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

By : Ivo Balbaert
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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

By: Ivo Balbaert

Overview of this book

A key problem of software development today is software bloat, where huge toolchains and development environments are needed in software coding and deployment. Red significantly reduces this bloat by offering a minimalist but complete toolchain. This is the first introductory book about it, and it will get you up and running with Red as quickly as possible. This book shows you how to write effective functions, reduce code redundancies, and improve code reuse. It will be helpful for new programmers who are starting out with Red to explore its wide and ever-growing package ecosystem and also for experienced developers who want to add Red to their skill set. The book presents the fundamentals of programming in Red and in-depth informative examples using a step-by-step approach. You will be taken through concepts and examples such as doing simple metaprogramming, functions, collections, GUI applications, and more. By the end of the book, you will be fully equipped to start your own projects in Red.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Assessments

Summary

Now you have learned to perform simple and the more complex tasks of recognizing, analyzing, and manipulating data by using parse. We first got to know the bitset! datatype and its handy charset equivalent. Then, we learned how to parse with to and thru, extract data (with copy), and change data. We saw how we can attach code to a rule to be executed when it matches. Finally, we explored how to parse blocks and code, and how to get a detailed output of how parse works in a specific case.

This chapter was not exhaustive, some other words exist in parse which we haven't talked about. In fact, the parse dialect deserves a book on its own.