Learning to Program in Ruby: By Example

Beginner

35 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

This course teaches programming fundamentals using the Ruby language. It uses an example-based approach and aims to teach coding by building a Hangman game.

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Explanations

This course includes

40 Playgrounds

13 Quizzes

60 Illustrations

This course includes

40 Playgrounds

13 Quizzes

60 Illustrations

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...Show More

What You'll Learn

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 Content

Before We Begin

What To Expect From This Course

Getting Started

Hide a Word and Ask for a Letter

Wait for a Proposal and Check It

Improve the Proposal Check

Handling Multiple Letters

Ask for More Letters Challenge: Character Counter Solution: Character Counter Improve the Behavior by Using a Routine Show the Letters That a Player Finds Challenge: Make a Routine Solution: Make a Routine

Improving the Implementation

Split the Source Code Challenge: Make Separate Files for the Routine Solution: Make Separate Files for the Routine Show All the Letters That the Player Has Already Found Challenge: Implement Multiple Routines Solution: Implement Multiple Routines Recall the Wrong Proposals Challenge: Sort and Remove Duplicates in the Collection Solution: Sort and Remove Duplicates in the Collection

Declaring Results and Improving Presentation

Declare That the Player Has Won Challenge: Print a Partial Collection Solution: Print a Partial Collection Declare That the Player Has Lost Challenge: Implement a Simple Loop Solution: Implement a Simple Loop Draw the Gallows Add Gallows to the Game

Generalizing Our Implementation

6 Lessons

Wrap Up

1 Lesson

COURSE AUTHOR

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