Introduction to Ruby

Learn the basics of Ruby. Make a hello world program, then include if/else statements

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Steps to complete this course 7

Set up your environment

Introduction to Ruby
Set-up

Install and setup your developer environment
Run a 'hello world' program

Write a basic hello world program in Ruby
Running a Ruby Program

Learn how to run our hello world program
Using Ruby Methods

Ruby comes with many pre-built methods
Using If/Else Statements

If Statements give you control of how to respond if a condition is true
Else Statements

Else statements give you a default reponse if a condition is false

66 minutes

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August 30, 2019

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