Ruby for Beginners V3

Lesson 1: Introduction

Welcome to the LearnStreet beginner course on Ruby. In this course, you'll learn how to code in Ruby, a flexible yet powerful programming language that’s popular over the web. Some of the most popular websites--like Twitter, Groupon, and Hulu--are built on top of Ruby on Rails (also known as RoR or Rails), a web application framework for the Ruby programming language.

If you'd like to learn more about setting up Ruby on your own PC or Mac, please click here. This step is not required for the course, but it will help you test and practice some concepts as you go along.

This course is designed for people who have no prior programming knowledge, so we'll teach you fundamental programming concepts as we go. Throughout the course, you'll write code to apply what you've learned to solve programming problems. In addition, after you complete the course, you'll code functionality to build a LearnStreet Bank project, which you’ll be able to share with your friends.