w1

Week 1: Basic Object-Oriented Programming

Monday: Arrays, Strings, and Objects

Readings

• Methods
• Objects
• Arrays
• Strings

Exercises (Download)

Tuesday: Blocks and Iteration

Readings

• Blocks
• Iteration
• Enumerables

Exercises (Download)

Wednesday: Extending Classes

Readings

• Classes
• Hashes

Exercises (Download)

Thursday: Writing New Classes

Readings

• Classes
• Scope

Exercises (Download)

Friday/Weekend: Writing Good Code

Videos (required)

• Refactoring and Code Smells (video lecture)
• Debugging (video lecture)

Readings

• Coding Style
• Ruby Style Guide
• DRY
• Method Decomposition
• Naming
• Refactoring
• Debugging (optional)

Exercises

• Review the material for the week. Make sure you understand everything deeply; if anything is unclear, do some research and ask for help! After your review, go back and refactor your previous work. Apply the principles you've learned to write the best code you can.

Bonus

• Project Euler problems