Calendar
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Topics |
Hours |
Cum. |
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Core objectives |
29.00 |
29.00 |
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Introduction |
1.00 |
1.00 |
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Syllabus |
0.25 |
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Programming and Ruby language overview |
0.50 |
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Text editors and the command line |
0.25 |
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Practicum: output with puts |
0.25 |
1.25 |
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Definitions: Syntax & Semantics |
0.25 |
1.50 |
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Numbers and Arithmetic |
1.50 |
3.00 |
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Integers (Fixnum/Bignum) and Floating point (Float) |
0.50 |
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Arithmetic operators, precedence, parenthesization |
1.00 |
|
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Strings |
0.50 |
3.50 |
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Usage and composition (i.e., characters and ASCII) |
0.50 |
|
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Classes and Objects |
3.00 |
6.50 |
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OO terminology |
0.50 |
|
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Invoking methods |
2.00 |
|
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Dot (’.') operator |
0.50 |
|
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Method parameters and invocation |
0.50 |
|
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Introspection: class, send, and respond_to? |
0.50 |
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String methods (+, *, <<, length, capitalize, reverse, etc.) |
0.50 |
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Conversions (to_i, to_s) |
0.50 |
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Variables and Assignments |
2.00 |
8.50 |
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Variable names, assignment syntax |
0.50 |
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Defining and using constants |
0.25 |
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Practicum: useful predefined constants |
0.50 |
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Object identity and references |
0.50 |
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Parallel assignment |
0.25 |
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Expressions and Statements |
1.00 |
9.50 |
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Practicum: input and formatted output |
1.00 |
10.50 |
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gets and chomp |
0.50 |
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String variable interpolation |
0.25 |
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Pretty printing: pp and inspect |
0.25 |
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Practicum: the interactive ruby interpreter “irb” |
1.00 |
11.50 |
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Practicum: online documentation “ri” |
0.50 |
12.00 |
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Booleans expressions and Boolean operators |
1.00 |
13.00 |
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Control structures |
3.50 |
16.50 |
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if, if-else, if-elsif-else, unless |
1.00 |
|
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Syntax and branch semantics |
0.50 |
|
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Flow chart equivalence |
0.50 |
|
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case-when-else and === |
0.50 |
|
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while, until and break, redo, next |
2.00 |
|
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Syntax and loop semantics |
1.00 |
|
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Sentinels and loop invariants |
0.50 |
|
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Searching and sorting |
0.50 |
|
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Defining and using methods |
2.50 |
19.00 |
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Definition syntax |
0.25 |
|
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Method call and return |
0.50 |
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Method arguments |
0.50 |
|
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Local variables, variable scope, and the call stack |
1.00 |
|
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Method aliases |
0.25 |
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Recursion |
1.00 |
20.00 |
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Complex data types |
4.00 |
24.00 |
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Symbols |
0.50 |
|
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Arrays |
2.00 |
|
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Hashes |
1.00 |
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Ranges |
0.50 |
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File I/O |
1.00 |
25.00 |
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File objects |
0.50 |
|
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Reading and writing |
0.50 |
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Practicum: Structured files and YAML |
1.00 |
26.00 |
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Blocks and Iterators |
1.50 |
27.50 |
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Block syntax and lambdas |
1.00 |
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Passing blocks to methods and yield |
0.50 |
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Practicum: using Enumerable iterators |
1.50 |
29.00 |
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