1. Ruby Master Class Christina Thompson @Xtina_Starr c.thompsonms@gmail.com

2. Intro Learning to code with Skillcrush Found a new passion…Now what? Ada

3. Why I love Beginner Friendly It’s Flexible The Community Rails

4. The Struggles of Learning Learning your first programming language is really hard! – It’s abstract and not really natural. Git, Ruby, and the Ruby Docs are magic, but I promise it “gits” better!

5. When It Started to Click The HTTP Request Cycle

6. Understanding the HTTP Request Cycle Helped focus on a particular state. State – all of the stored information (e.g. methods and variables) at a given instances in time that a program has access to.

7. State

8. Ask the Right Questions What methods and variables are available in a particular state? – Tip: to figure out what methods are available to an object you can call.methods on it What type of object are you working with? What a method is called on an object what value is return?

9. Debugging SyntaxError - Raised when encountering Ruby code with an invalid syntax. – [1, 2, 3, 4].delete(2 TypeError - Raised when encountering an object that is not of the expected type. – [1, 2, 3].first(“two”) NameError - Raised when a given name is invalid or undefined. – string.chomp ArgumentErrors - Raised when the arguments are wrong and there isn't a more specific Exception class. – [1, 2, 3, 4].delete

10. Debugging Using puts and inspect Better Errors Gem

11. Getting Better At Ruby Practice practice practice Being patient it will come Reading other people's code Explaining your code to others Solving problems like FizzBuzz in different ways Asking questions Being fearless

12. Resources Ruby Docs RubyMonk (tutorial) Git Immersion (tutorial) Stack Overflow Learn to Program - The Facets of Ruby Series by Chris Pine (book) Computer Science Basics in Ruby (book) The Ruby Style Guide Google :-)