Learn Ruby from Scratch
INTERACTIVE COURSE

Learn Ruby from Scratch

Beginner

124 Lessons

12h

Certificate of Completion

Learn Ruby from Scratch
3 Projects
176 Playgrounds
31 Challenges
13 Quizzes
61 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

Learn how to program using Ruby as your first programming language.

Learn idiomatic Ruby.

Learn about blocks, methods, regular expressions, and more in Ruby.

Course Overview

Do you want to learn about interpreted languages? Tired of dense syntaxes? Tired of compiling code to machine language first? Are you looking for an easy-to-use scripting language? Well, Ruby is the answer! Ruby is a smart, easy-to-use, functional, object-oriented programming language, a wondrous mix of Perl's scripting power, Pythonic capabilities, and more! As Matsumoto, creator of Ruby, implies: "I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be ...Show More

Course Content

1

The Big Picture

2

Variables

3

Built-in Class: Numeric

4

Built-in Class: String

5

Built-in Classes: TrueClass, FalseClass, and NilClass

6

Built-in Class: Symbol

1 Lesson

7

Built-in Class: Array

10 Lessons

8

Built-in Class: Hash

7 Lessons

9

Objects

10 Lessons

10

Methods

13 Lessons

11

Operators are Methods

6 Lessons

12

Blocks

11 Lessons

Get Ready for Some More Drill!

Project

13

Conditionals

6 Lessons

14

Coding Challenge: Truthiness and Equivalence

2 Lessons

Lets Run Another Lap with Hashes

Project

15

Writing Classes

14 Lessons

The Mailbox Project

Project

16

Spotlight on Things Unremarked

11 Lessons

17

Advanced Topics

8 Lessons

18

Your Toolkit

4 Lessons

19

Appendix: Mailbox Project Prerequisite

1 Lesson

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