Comprehensive Ruby Programming

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Ruby Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Ruby Programming Language

Lecture 2: Comprehensive Ruby Programming eBook Download

Lecture 3: How to Install Ruby

Lecture 4: How to Install Different Versions of Ruby with RVM

Chapter 2: Ruby Variables

Lecture 1: Introduction to variables in Ruby

Lecture 2: Options for printing to the Ruby console

Lecture 3: Using gets and chomp to get input from the Ruby console

Lecture 4: Ruby variable types and variable scopes

Chapter 3: Ruby Strings

Lecture 1: Introduction to the String data type in Ruby

Lecture 2: String interpolation in Ruby

Lecture 3: String manipulation in Ruby

Lecture 4: String substitution in Ruby

Lecture 5: Using the split and strip methods on Strings in Ruby

Chapter 4: Working with Numbers in Ruby

Lecture 1: Arithmetic Functions in Ruby

Lecture 2: Order of operations in Ruby Arithmetic

Lecture 3: Difference between integers and floats in Ruby

Chapter 5: Methods in Ruby

Lecture 1: Introduction to methods in Ruby

Lecture 2: What Ruby methods return

Lecture 3: Difference Between Puts and Returning Values

Lecture 4: Difference between class and instance methods in Ruby

Lecture 5: Procs in Ruby

Lecture 6: Lambdas in Ruby

Lecture 7: Difference between Procs and Lambdas

Lecture 8: Comprehensive Guide to Method Arguments

Lecture 9: Guide to Splat Arguments in Ruby 3

Lecture 10: How to Work with Keyword and Optional Arguments in Ruby Methods

Chapter 6: Ruby Iterators and Loops

Lecture 1: While loops in Ruby

Lecture 2: Using the Ruby each iterator

Lecture 3: Using the 'for in' loop in Ruby

Lecture 4: Nested iterators in Ruby

Lecture 5: Using the select method in Ruby

Lecture 6: How to use the map method on Ruby collections – Part 1

Lecture 7: How to use the map method on Ruby Collections – Part 2

Lecture 8: Using the inject method in Ruby

Chapter 7: Ruby Collections

Lecture 1: Introduction to Ruby arrays

Lecture 2: Deleting items from arrays

Lecture 3: Using the Ruby join method on arrays

Lecture 4: Using push and pop methods on Ruby arrays

Lecture 5: Introduction to hashes in Ruby

Lecture 6: How to delete from a Ruby hash

Lecture 7: How to iterate over a hash in Ruby

Lecture 8: Helpful hash methods in Ruby

Chapter 8: Ruby Conditionals

Lecture 1: Introduction to Ruby conditionals

Lecture 2: Using the Unless conditional in Ruby

Lecture 3: Using multiple if/else statements in Ruby

Lecture 4: Using compound conditionals in Ruby

Chapter 9: Object Oriented Programming

Lecture 1: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Ruby

Lecture 2: Setters and Getters in Ruby

Lecture 3: Using the initialize method in a Ruby class

Lecture 4: Object oriented inheritance in Ruby

Lecture 5: Differences between Private and Public methods in Ruby

Lecture 6: Polymorphism and using super in Ruby

Lecture 7: Deep Dive: How to Work with Ruby Modules

Chapter 10: Working with the file system in Ruby

Lecture 1: Creating a File in Ruby

Lecture 2: Reading files into a Ruby program

Lecture 3: Deleting files in Ruby

Lecture 4: Appending to a file in Ruby

Chapter 11: Error handling in Ruby

Lecture 1: Basic error handling syntax

Lecture 2: Better error handling in Ruby

Lecture 3: How to build a custom error handler in Ruby

Chapter 12: Regular Expressions in Ruby

Lecture 1: Introduction to Regular Expressions in Ruby

Lecture 2: Build an email validation matcher with Regular Expressions in Ruby

Lecture 3: Build an IP address validator with Regular Expressions in Ruby

Lecture 4: Develop a Wheel of Fortune game in Ruby

Chapter 13: Searching with grep

Lecture 1: Introduction to Grep in Ruby

Lecture 2: Using grep instead of the select and map methods for searching

Chapter 14: Ruby Gems

Lecture 1: Ruby Gems overview

Lecture 2: Ruby Gem tutorial: dish gem

Lecture 3: How to Generate a QR Code with the RQRCode Gem

Lecture 4: Researching Ruby Gems

Chapter 15: Metaprogramming

Lecture 1: Introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby