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Summary

We consider some important aspects of the Ruby programming language and how those aspects will affect our code writing in this course.

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Overview

• Important aspects of Ruby.
• Puzzling aspects of Ruby.
• Discuss HW1.
• Start Chapter 4 (with partner).

Administrivia

• I'm going to put you in teams of about three students for the first half of class. Be prepared to move!
• My "sanity plans" are failing in two ways: I'm not limiting my work as much as I should be and I'm also not getting everything updated as much as it should. Expect to see the due dates get fixed on the Edge site in a day or so.

Important aspects of Ruby

• Very adaptable language.
• Lambdas!
• Too many ways to solve the same problem.
• Powerful arrays.

Puzzling aspects of Ruby

• Mixins.
• Regular expressions.
• Metaprogramming.
• Duck Typing.
• yield

Discuss HW1

• What things were difficult?
• How would you change your RockPaperScissors program if you were not guaranteed to have a balanced tournament?
• How did you achieve the metaprogramming result?
• What other problems do you want to discuss together?

Start Chapter 4 (with partner)

• We'll assign partners randomly!