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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

In this chapter, you got a glimpse of some advanced features that Red has to offer. We saw how powerful reactive programming techniques make it possible to link two or more objects, so that if one changes, the others change with it. You got an introduction to Red/System, the lower layer of the Red platform, and learned how to incorporate its power to improve performance or to do low-level coding from within your Red apps. We captured command-line arguments for our script, and used call to start other programs. We learned how to use the vector!, hash!, and map! datatypes for performance when working with number series and dictionaries. At the end, you got a glimpse of the (near) future of Red's development, and you acquired a collection of the best links to turn to if you need more help.

We have now come to the end of our Red journey. I hope that this whirlwind overview...