The Handbook for Ruby Developers

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Beginner

89 Lessons

7h 30min

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This course includes

170 Playgrounds

5 Challenges

10 Quizzes

This course includes

170 Playgrounds

5 Challenges

10 Quizzes

Course Overview

This self-study course written as a book is your first step towards making money by coding and programming from home, and having fun doing it. You will understand how the Ruby language works, and establish a foundation for being a successful freelance developer. This course gives you not only technical detail, but presents knowledge in a friendly format, understandable by all ages, providing a thorough explanation of modern concepts for absolute beginners. In this course you will find 78 easy to follow tas...Show More

What You'll Learn

Learn the difference between Ruby and other programming languages.

Understand the fundamentals of Ruby.

Understand the operators and methods used in Ruby.

Learn about object-oriented programming in Ruby.

Learn about the process of debugging in Ruby and Ruby Version Management (RVM).

Learn about the testing process in Ruby.

What You'll Learn

Learn the difference between Ruby and other programming languages.

Course Content

Before We Begin

In Lieu of an Introduction

Why Should We Learn Ruby?

What Will We Study?Your Advantage

First Steps

Runtime Environments

Writing Our First Program REPL Exercise: First steps Quiz: First Steps

Fundamentals of Ruby

Variables in Ruby String Addition and Multiplication Data Types in Ruby Everything Is An Object in Ruby (Proof)Type Casting (Type Conversion)Fractional Numbers String Interpolation in Ruby Bang!Blocks in Ruby Blocks with Parameters Methods of Ruby’s Integer Class Exercise 1: Fundamentals of Ruby Quiz: Fundamentals of Ruby

Conditional Statements

Testing Variables and Branching Combining Conditions Some Useful Ruby Methods Random Numbers Exercise: Conditional Statements Quiz: Conditional Statements

Operators and Methods

Ternary Operator Loading Indicator Methods Judgment Day Emulator Instance and Local Variables Programming a Slot Machine Quiz: Operators and Methods

Arrays

14 Lessons

Hash

14 Lessons

Fun with Object Oriented Programming

12 Lessons

Debugging in Ruby

4 Lessons

10.

Ruby Version Manager

4 Lessons

11.

Testing Ruby Programs

3 Lessons

12.

Wrap Up!

1 Lesson

13.

Appendix

2 Lessons

Course Author

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