Ruby Foundations: Rapid Mastery for Beginners

Get a strong foundation in Ruby programming over a weekend.

About This Course

12 Modules 48 Lessons

This course will give cover everything you need to know to have a great foundation in Ruby and start coding. It will use real world context examples to prepare you for real applications of what you'll learn in this course.

Prerequisites

• Have passed 8th Grade Level
• Understanding of basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
• Familiarity with comparing numbers (greater than, less than, equal to).

You can complete this course in 16 days with just 1 hour a day.

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Day 1

Introduction to Ruby (13 min)

Writing and Running Your First Ruby Program (16 min)

Day 2

Basic Syntax and Structure (32 min)

Variables and Constants (17 min) lock

Day 3

Strings (24 min) lock

Numbers (34 min) lock

Day 4

Booleans (36 min) lock

Symbols and Nil (21 min) lock

Day 5

Creating and Using Arrays (34 min) lock

Ranges (15 min) lock

Day 6

Comparison and Logical Operators (22 min) lock

Assignment Operators (30 min) lock

Day 7

If Statements (19 min) lock

Unless Statements (20 min) lock

Case Statements (19 min) lock

Day 8

Ternary Operators (5 min) lock

Basic Introduction to Methods (17 min) lock

Basic Introduction to Classes (10 min) lock

Common Array Methods (24 min) lock

Day 9

Iterating Over Arrays (11 min) lock

Creating and Using Hashes (22 min) lock

Common Hash Methods (23 min) lock

Day 10

Iterating Over Hashes (24 min) lock

While and Until Loops (16 min) lock

For Loops and Enumerable Methods (16 min) lock

Day 11

Times, Upto, and Downto (20 min) lock

Creating and Calling Methods (25 min) lock

Method Parameters and Return Values (7 min) lock

Day 12

Defining Classes and Creating Objects (25 min) lock

Scope and Visibility (23 min) lock

Default Arguments (10 min) lock

Day 13

Keyword Arguments and Positional Arguments (8 min) lock

Splat Operator (17 min) lock

Blocks (20 min) lock

Day 14

Procs and Lambdas (20 min) lock

Class and Object Interactions (22 min) lock

Instance Variables and Methods (13 min) lock

Day 15

The initialize Method (7 min) lock

Class Inheritance (12 min) lock

Mixins and Modules (13 min) lock

Method Overriding and super (13 min) lock

Accessor Methods (13 min) lock

Day 16

Encapsulation (7 min) lock

File Loading: require, require_relative, load, and autoload (16 min) lock

Module Inclusion: include, prepend, and extend (13 min) lock

Installing External Packages with Gems (14 min) lock

Singleton (9 min) lock

Small favor (0 min) lock