LEARNING RUBY

This course is intended to develop basic Ruby programming skills and general programming skills as well. After taking it you can go further and become a Ruby on Rails developer or a data scientist, using modern methods to process data, or become a DevOps expert. Or you just can apply this knowledge in everyday work to automate small tasks, solve challenging problems and do other fun stuff.

Why choose this course:

First of all, this course will be interesting to those who want to get a first glimpse of Ruby language and begin to study it. This course will help you to get acquainted with Ruby, its specifics, main features and possible applications.

The course will be interesting to all engineers who:

 - Wish to study their first language

- Already know how to code, but want to learn coding in Ruby

Course participants are expected to have:

- Basic computer literacy 

- Basic skills of working with a console (command line, terminal)

- Basic understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP)

- Tremendous desire to learn something new

Course contents:

Beginner

1. Introduction to objects.
2. Introduction to strings.
3. Conditions and loops.
4. Arrays.
5. Introduction to Ruby hashes.
6. Methods.
7. Classes.
8. Lambdas and Blocks.
9. Modules.
10. Threads.

Student

1. Blocks, Procs and Lambdas 
1. Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
2. Blocks, Procs and Lambdas — further delving into the flexible language features
2. Classes: Inheritance
1. Study one of the OOP basics — class inheritance in Ruby 
2. Further study of class inheritance in Ruby
3. Object comparison and serialization
1. Learn how Ruby compares objects and what serialization is
4. Further details on arrays
1. Delving into array usage
5. More information on modules
1. Delving into module usage
6. Exceptions
1. Learn what exceptions are and how to work with them in Ruby
7. Collections
1. Learn what collections are and how to use them in Ruby 
8. Finding and fixing bugs
1. Are you getting errors in your first code? We'll cover the simple basics that will be handy at debugging our code

Advanced

1. Ruby Object Model
2. Dynamic methods 
3. Code review
4. Eval
5. Threads, fibers and multithreading
6. Functional programming
7. Hooks, tracing, ObjectSpace and GC modules
8. Creating your own RubyGems