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Preface
Ruby Is For Fun
Self-Study Course, From Absolute Beginner to Advanced
Front Matter
In Lieu Of an Introduction
Ruby vs. Ybur
Ruby Is For Fun
What will we study?
Web Programming Or Something Else?
How Much Do Programmers Earn?
Your Advantage
Exercise
1
First Steps
Runtime Environment
Setting Up Windows (MacOS, Linux) For Your First Program
Exercise
Hello, I’m Your REPL
Exercise
Running a Program From a File
Hello, I’m Your File Manager
Exercise
File System Essentials
File System Navigation
Exercise
Shell Survival Guide
Exercise
Keep this in mind
Exercise
Exercise
Be Careful
Don’t Do This
Text Editors
Exercise
Your First Program
Exercise
Exercise
Variables in Ruby
String Addition and Multiplication
Essentials
Data Types
Exercise
Exercise
Everything Is An Object (Proof)
Type Casting (type conversion)
Fractional Numbers
String Interpolation
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Bang!
Exercise
Blocks
Blocks With Parameters
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Methods Of Integer Class
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Testing Variables And Branching
Exercise
Combining Conditions
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Some Useful Methods of Ruby Language
Random Numbers
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Guess The Number Game
Exercise
Having Fun
Ternary Operator
Exercise
Loading Indicator
Exercise
Methods
Judgement Day Emulator
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Instance and Local Variables
Programming Slot Machine
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Arrays
Exercise
Few Words About “Each”
Initializing Array
Accessing Array
Missing Detail
Exercise
Battle of Robots
Exercise
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Arrays of Arrays (two-dimensional arrays)
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Gems
Exercise
Accessing Array of Arrays
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Multi-dimensional Arrays
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Closer Look into Array class
empty? method
Methods length, size, count
Exercise
include? method
Adding Elements to Arrays
Selecting Elements by Criteria
Rejecting Elements by Criteria
Take Method
Is There Any Match? (any?)
All Elements Should Meet Criteria
Few Words About Array Methods
Symbols
Exercise
Hash
Exercise 1
Exercise 2, the Moon store
Other types as Hash values
Exercise 1
JSON-structure of a real-world application
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
English-Spanish dictionary
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Comparison of hashes and arrays
Most often used methods of Hash class
Setting a default value in Hash
Exercise
Passing parameters to methods
Exercise
HashSet
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Iteration over hash elements
Exercise
“dig” method
Key presence
Exercise
Fun with Object-Oriented Programming
Classes and objects
State
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
State, one more example
Exercise
Duck typing and polymorphism
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Inheritance
Modules
Subtyping vs Inheritance
Exercise
Class methods
The truth about Object-Oriented programming
Debugging a program
Debugging by using output to console
Debugging by using console debugger
Debugging with IDE
Practice: save the world with Ruby
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Docker, crash course
Ruby Version Manager (RVM)
Testing Ruby programs
Rspec
Exercise
Exercise
Final words
Notes
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