learningtoprogram | Introduction

learningtoprogram is a Ruby library. learningtoprogram has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

this is an introduction to programming. the material is geared towards beginners w/little to no experience. material is being added and created as a group of teens are learning to program in ruby. here is a walk-thru of program 1. let's start by asking for a name (using puts, short for put string), getting the name (using gets, short for get string) and printing that name. let's use the method print instead of puts for the question because puts adds a newline. that looks better, but let's also use the chomp method to get rid of the newline that the gets method grabs. let's add some comments for our code. comments allow us to write notes for ourselves and other humans to read. the computer ignores them. notice the special syntax inside of the string that allows us to use the variable. you can also do other things in with in those braces. for instance reverse the string