About this Course Ruby is a programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. In Ruby Basics, we'll learn how to work with Ruby and write simple Ruby programs. What you'll learn Ruby syntax Objects Strings Numbers If statements
Ruby Syntax Learn the basics of writing Ruby programs! You'll see how to define and call methods, and how to store data in variables. 16 steps Your First Ruby Program 3:14 Course Overview 1:56 Our Feature List 0:57 Methods 6:38 Methods 5 questions Methods 1 objective Comments 1:36 Defining Methods 4:00 Defining Methods 1 objective Variables 5:15 Variables 1 objective Method Arguments 7:02 Method Arguments 1 objective Method Return Values 11:42 Method Return Values 1 objective Review 4 questions
Strings Almost every program needs to work with text. Programming languages represent text using "strings". In this stage we'll take a look at Ruby's powerful features for working with strings. 8 steps Strings 1:27 String Concatenation 6:39 String Concatenation 1 objective String Interpolation 4:17 Inspecting Values 2:12 Escape Sequences 3:54 Escape Sequences 1 objective Review 3 questions
Objects In Ruby, almost every piece of data is an "object". That means the data has useful methods attached to it that you can call. In this stage, we'll learn how to use these methods! 4 steps Calling Methods on an Object 5:13 Calling Methods on an Object 1 objective Classes 6:02 Using "chomp" to Fix Our Output 1:58
Numbers
Almost every program needs to work with numbers, too. We'll learn about Ruby's two most common types of numbers, how to do math with them, and how to call methods on them. 8 steps Numeric Types 2:32 Numeric Types 1 objective Math Operations 4:52 Math Operations 1 objective Operator Precedence 2:12 Converting Strings to Numbers 4:21 Converting Strings to Numbers 1 objective Review 5 questions
Conditionals Sometimes you'll need to run a piece of code only under certain conditions. Conditionals like if and unless allow you to do that! 9 steps Comparison Operators 7:59 Comparison Operators 1 objective "if" and "unless" Statements 6:44 "if" Statements 1 objective Boolean Operators 9:05 "elsif" and "else" 4:43 A Better "check_speed" Method 1 objective Review 5 questions Course Summary 1:37
Teacher Jay McGavren Resident Ruby and Go teacher for Treehouse. Author of Head First Ruby, a tutorial book on the core Ruby language.
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