Learn programming with Ruby - start with the basics and go all the way to creating your own applications!

What you'll learn:

Learn how to use Ruby professionally
Create applications using Ruby
Get better at Ruby on Rails by understanding a lot of the code behind it
Learn advanced programming features, like algorithms, design and more!
Master and apply Object Oriented Programming
Learn how to automate daily life tasks like car shopping using Ruby!
Start with basics - progress to advanced programming topics - all in one course

Become a programmer with Ruby and learn one of the most fundamental skills in any industry - today and the future.

This is the most comprehensive course for learning how to program using the Ruby programming language. Why did we choose Ruby to teach programming?Not only is Ruby one of the easiest programming languages to get started with, but it is also extremely powerful and provides tools for learning and using all the fundamentals of programming that can be used in any language - with its own flair for programmer happiness. Whether you are a complete beginner or already know the basics but want to know and apply advanced concepts in programming like OOP, automation using web scraping, data engineeringand algorithms built from scratch - this is the course for you!

Ruby is also the programming language behindRuby onRails which is one of the most popular and in-demand web development frameworks, with the highest paying jobs in the world today.

This course will teach Ruby, and programming in general, in a practical manner - you will be presented with concepts in screencast videos which you can code along with; followed by quizzes and coding exercises to test your understanding; along with programming assignments which will bring it all together to seal your knowledge. We go over the practical details of programming, issues that programmers face daily and build up your understanding in an efficient way. And with unlimited access - you can learn at your own pace!

By the end of this course, you will be able to write complete programs that can take input from users, build interactive menus, interact with formatted data files, automate life tasks like car shopping online using web scraping and engineering complex data from web server logs to your own specifications, among many other skills!

We will cover a wide variety of topics, including:

Installing Ruby - Mac, Windows and Linux
Command Line basics
Ruby basics
Basic data structures - Strings, Ints, Floats and more
Compound data structures - Arrays, Hashes and more
Algorithms and implementation - Sorting, Binary Search Trees and more!
Print Formatting
Methods
Built-in methods
Debugging and Error Handling
Object OrientedProgramming concepts
- Classes, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Modules
File I/O in-depth
Web scraping
Automation of daily life tasks (car shopping online as an example)
Data Engineering - project with web server logs
Ruby specific methods
and much more!