Ruby 2: Getting Started

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• Discover the fundamentals of the Ruby programming language.
• You will write Ruby code to solve a specific programming problem.
• See how simple Ruby constructs like conditionals and loops have their own unique flavour.
• Then you'll get to work with the most common Ruby data types, such as arrays and hashes.
• Understand how to handle programming errors and exceptions.
• When you finish this course, you will be able to write a simple Ruby programme and will be well-positioned to delve into more specific aspects of this brilliant language.

Syllabus :

1. Writing Your First Ruby Program

•   Version Check 
•   About This Training 
•   The "Big Picture" Training 
•   "A Little Extra" Clips 
•   Running Ruby 
•   Enter the REPL 
•   A Few Things to Know 

 

2. Reading Input Data

•   The Problem That We Want to Solve 
•   Downloading "Romeo and Juliet" 
•   Reading Data from a File 
•   Defining Constants 
•   A Little Extra: A Few Ways to Read Data 

 

3. Having Fun with Strings

•   Accessing Ruby's Documentation 
•   Bang Methods and Question Methods 
•   Cleaning up the Text 
•   Unleashing Regular Expressions 
•   Splitting the Text 
•   A Little Extra: Single and Double Quotes

 

4. Defining Functions

•   What a Ruby Function Looks Like 
•   Wrapping Our Code in a Function 
•   "Functions" Aren't Really Functions 
•   A Little Extra: Global Variables 

 

5. Juggling Collections

•   Ruby's Arrays 
•   Exploring Array Indexes 
•   The Basics of Hashes 
•   A Little Extra: Hashes and Symbols 

 

6. Understanding Iteration

•   Writing a Loop 
•   Discovering Blocks 
•   Looping without a Loop 
•   A Little Extra: More Ways to Iterate 

 

7. Writing Conditionals

•   A Basic Conditional 
•   Cleaning up the Conditional 
•   A Little Extra: Multiple Cases 

 

8. Dealing with Errors

•   Rescuing Exceptions 
•   Terser Exception Management 
•   A Little Extra: Advanced Error Management 

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