Learn Ruby
Learn to program in Ruby, a flexible and beginner-friendly language used to create sites like Codecademy.
Why Learn Ruby?
Ruby is a general-purpose language that is still popular and in high demand in the marketplace, as it’s more commonly used in Rails applications.
Concise and readable, it is easy to pick up but also plenty powerful. Companies like Twitter, Soundcloud, Goodreads, and Kickstarter got their products off the ground with Ruby.
Take-Away Skills:
In this course, you will gain familiarity with Ruby and basic programming concepts—including variables, loops, control flow, and most importantly, object-oriented programming. You’ll get a chance to test your understanding in a final project, which you’ll build locally.
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What you'll learn
- 1Learn about Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language you can use on its own or as part of the Ruby on Rails web framework.
- 2Learn how to write more complex programs that can respond to user input.
- 3Learn to use loops and iterators to automate repetitive tasks.
- 4Learn about arrays and hashes, including how to iterate over these data structures.
- 5Learn how to define your own methods, as well as how to use blocks to develop powerful sorting algorithms.
— Madelyn, Pinterest“I know from first-hand experience that you can go in knowing zero, nothing, and just get a grasp on everything as you go and start building right away.”