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Learning to Program in Ruby: By Example

Gain insights into Ruby programming by building a hangman game. Learn about fundamentals, practical applications, and develop strong programming skills. No prior coding experience needed.

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35 Lessons

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

Learning Roadmap

35 Lessons13 Quizzes

Before We Begin

Get familiar with programming basics in Ruby through a practical hangman game project.

What To Expect From This Course

Getting Started

Look at basic Ruby programming concepts through a simple guess-the-word game.

Hide a Word and Ask for a Letter

Wait for a Proposal and Check It

Improve the Proposal Check

Handling Multiple Letters

7 Lessons

Go hands-on with Ruby routines, character counting, and user input validation techniques.

Improving the Implementation

9 Lessons

Break down complex ideas to improve Ruby code organization, reuse, and functionality.

Declaring Results and Improving Presentation

8 Lessons

Enhance game functionality and presentation by implementing win/lose conditions, loops, and visual elements.

Generalizing Our Implementation

6 Lessons

See how it works to handle repeated letters, split strings, choose words, and guess numbers in Ruby.

Wrap Up

Build on key Ruby programming lessons, game creation, testing, and community feedback.

Conclusion

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Developed by MAANG Engineers

ABOUT THIS COURSE

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 functional hangman game while learning the fundamentals of programming. This is a beginner-level course and doesn’t require any prior experience in programming. The course will provide a strong foundation for the advancement of your programming skills and also pave the way for a career in programming.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

jeanlazarou

I am a fullstack developer as we say today, but I've been for such a long time in IT development. In my early days, I learned computer science on mainframes. From assembler, to C, to C++, to Java, to Ruby, to Javascript and back to (web)assembler...

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