Beginner
35 Lessons
3h
Certificate of Completion
Takeaway Skills
Hands-on experience on building a fully functional hangman game using Ruby
Familiarity with building blocks of programming, including variables, collections, and conditional statements
Familiarity with the key steps in problem-solving and better structuring your code
Course Overview
Programming is a way to teach a computer how to do something the way the programmer thinks it should be done. Put another way, programming is the description of how to perform some processing. In this course, you'll get hands-on experience in programming using Ruby by building a hangman game along the way. In the game, a player chooses a (hidden) word while a second player tries to guess the word. You'll learn to build the hangman game incrementally, and by the end of the course, you'll have a fully funct...
Course Content
Before We Begin
Getting Started
Handling Multiple Letters
Improving the Implementation
Declaring Results and Improving Presentation
Generalizing Our Implementation
6 Lessons
Wrap Up
1 Lesson
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