Ruby Jumpstart

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Congratulations everyone on completing unit 3! Now, let's move on to Unit 4! In this next unit, we'll be using a different programming language aside from JavaScript called Ruby. To get you prepared for tomorrow's lessons on it, we want you to at least see the new language in action and get some practice with it. Below, we've linked three different tutorials/guides that you can go through to begin familiarizing yourself with the language. It's up to you which tutorial you want to follow, and it's also up to you how much of it you go through, although we do have some suggestions below.

1. Codeacademy - you will have to create an account, but it's free!

2. Learn Ruby the Hard Way - make sure to click the table of contents in the upper left corner to find more exercises

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3. The Bastard's Book of Ruby

While you go through one of the above tutorials, we suggest particularly paying attention on:

1. Printing something in the console (the equivalent to console.log() in JavaScript)
2. Writing an if/else statement
3. Defining a method/function and calling it

It's your choice 😅

It's up to you if you want to get yourself ready for lessons or just jump in head first once we officially launch unit 4.