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Ruby

Posted by James Kinch
James Kinch
1,954 Points

Learning Ruby Track

Is it me or is the track shelling out points for not really achieving anything? Also, are the code challenges broken because they seem pretty easy to complete :/

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Code challenges are just there to make sure you were paying attention to what was said in the videos. Not achieving anything? Well that depends on you - were you just watching videos, or were you actually trying to write a similar app and doing your best to understand the topic by reaching out to other sources (like official documentation) and experimenting on your own?

James Kinch
James Kinch
1,954 Points

The entire reason for doing this track is to gain an understanding of how websites interact with users. I've done my fair share of coding in Python, JavaScript and PHP so I'm comfortable with the concepts that seem to be analogous to every tutorial teaching the basics of a coding language. I've been 'watching' the videos if only to reassure myself that I understands the concept and learn the syntax. (As you probably know PHP, JavaScript , Python and apparently Ruby all have similar derivations. I haven't progressed far enough to see any appreciable differences other than syntax although I hope to do so in the near future.)

I'm a great believer of taking everything I can from one source before moving on to another, so in answer to your question; no, I haven't been 'reaching out to other sources' because I'd inevitably end up wasting hours attempting to decipher the formal code documentation. It's why I'm here after all...

Also, in terms of writing another app, I play around with code. I'm currently re-writing my website in-light of some of the things I've learnt here and hope to be adding more complicated and responsive code soon.

I've got my own high horse thanks :)

Also, this was only in reference to this particular part of the over all track.