Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

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For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of Code (offered by Code.org) and as obviously ambitious as Code Year ...

There's more to the story than the alphabet.