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Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsRuby variables
Now that you have a name variable, create another variable called "favorite_food" with your favorite food. Bummer! We can't find the variable 'favorite_food'. PreviewRecheck work variable.rb
name = "My Name" name = "favorite_food"
whats wrong?
2 Answers
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsThe variable name needs to be favorite_food, so it should look something like this:
favorite_food = "pizza"
Shailesh Gor
2,975 PointsNow that you have a name variable, create another variable called favorite_food with your favorite food.name ="Raj" puts = "hello!" puts name favorite _ food = 12 puts = "favorite food" puts favorite _ food
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 Pointsso whats a variable in ruby? an =eaqule sing= ? like in PHP $ this is variable and in ruby = is variable right?
and i know maybe this question is weird or whatever but since you have 3k points on ruby , did it teach you alot about it?
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsMaciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsI'm not sure how to explain this, since I don't know what your background in programming is. Please don't hate me if the below description sounds too basic or even childish.
Variable is basically a container that has a name and can store something. In Ruby it can store anything (in languages like C you need to declare what type of thing it will store - a number, a character, a string etc.). So to just create an empty variable you just write:
favorite_foodIt now exists but does not have any content. To put content inside, you use the assignment operator
=. So this puts a string"pizza"inside your variable:favorite_food = "pizza"You can later put something else inside using the same operator:
favorite_food = 34So
=is an assignment operator that lets you put things inside variables :).Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 Pointsaaaaaaa so that mean that a variable in ruby is basicaly anything that you write and with = you just asign it what it willl go like prints on screen or gets to prompt right? my programming experience is week coz i did only ike basics of PHP and a bit of JS basics but im going to learn Ruby and i will stick with it because i see that they have alot of nice videos and i need to get started so thats my desision and i hope its good.
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsMaciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsYes, you got it :). And good decision. Let me quote an article that I came across by accident some time ago:
"[t]he likelihood that PHP is being used is strongly anti-correlated with company quality."
You should also do free exercises on http://www.codecademy.com/ - this will reinforce your knowledge you get from Treehouse videos.
And yes, Treehouse taught me a lot, but videos are not enough - you always need to practice, code on your own, try things, fail, find out why you failed and try another thing.
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsO i hope that basic CSS and HTML are enough . Well ill do that , when i get throw my basics video i go and do it on codeacademy . Thank you . BDW stay warm in Poland :D