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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130706
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivo Balbaert Ivo Balbaert
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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 11. Assessments
12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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