Ruby Basics Course

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Free Online Course: Ruby Basics Course provided by Treehouse is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Ruby Basics Course is taught by Jay McGavren.

Overview
  • 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

Syllabus
  • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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!

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    • Calling Methods on an Object

      5:13

    • Classes

      6:02

    • Using "chomp" to Fix Our Output

      1:58

    • Calling Methods on an Object

      1 objective

    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.

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    • 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!

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    • 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