#ruby for beginners

[programmingbeast]

05 Best Books To Learn Ruby!

Programming Hero - https://onelink.to/proghero9

If you want to learn Python, then download the app called 'Programming Hero' and start learning and practicing from the same app for free initially. Don't miss the chance of getting help from the free forum inside the app too.

[ellawilson-blog]

Beginners Guide To Ruby on Rails with Eduonix – Ella Wilson – Medium

Eduonix has designed an entire ruby on rails tutorial for beginners to help you easily learn Ruby on Rails online.

[arch2dev]

175 Hours Logged

The Emerald City Meetup is reviewing chapter 10 of the Hartl tutorial this weekend, I'm hoping to make it. This past week, I was able to complete Ruby Koans, my second HTML primer, and the Ruby Learning exercises of the week. Today was my first lesson on SQL. I also started reading Beginning Ruby. 

I think some other notable "progress boosters" have been flash cards, and acquiring new problem solving skills. I like flashcards because they offer a measurable way of tracking progress. I also just like flashcards. 

Some of the new problem solving skills I'm trying to put into practice are:

Identifying a plan before coding anything

Dividing the problem into pieces

Knowing when to get a new plan.

I'll end with a quote from Think Like a Programmer

"...recognizing analogies is the most important way you will improve your speed and skill at problem solving, it is also the most difficult skill to develop."

[arch2dev]

Adventure Games

Today, I made an adventure game. I am so proud to have authored a script that is 119 lines long, beginner style, yeeeeeeeah. 

The exercise was to write a story outline and then program it. I can’t believe how much time I spent just figuring out what my subject would be. It’s hard to come up with a story line that has the right amount of complexity, that makes sense (sort of), and has enough repetition to justify needing methods.

For the most part, I have been reading code, studying it, and spitting out a block here and there, but I've never tried to build flow. At least not to this extent. Got to say, the momentum of coding and testing at the same time is really cool. 

The tutorials are really where I have to stretch though. Today, I finally put it together that arrays and hashes are classes. When I've been checking if an object.is_a?(Hash), I’m actually asking if the object is part of the Hash class.  Now, when I go to look up methods at ruby-doc.org, the items under the Class/Module Index make way more sense.  It doesn’t seem like I’ll be tampering with things on that scale any time soon, but it does sort of explain how strings and integers can have different methods!