Learn To Code using Ruby (and sloths)

Workshop

This workshop is given by software engineer Kriselda Rabino (@krissygoround).

It introduces basic coding concepts using the Ruby programming language and has a few too many sloth analogies in it due to Kris' unhealthy obsession with these slow, amusing creatures.

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Topics

  1. So, who's this Ruby kid anyway?
  2. Playing with Ruby.
  3. Mistakes are inevitable; accept them, embrace them. (aka Exceptions are your new BFF)
  4. What does 'Object-Oriented' mean? How to think in things and classes.
  5. Ruby's basic data types: numbers and strings and arrays, oh my!
  6. Decisions, decisions. Conditional Statements are here to help.
  7. Doing things over and over (now it's getting a bit loopy)
  8. Your turn! Let's make some code.
  9. Continue your code-ventures.

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