Meet a Student: Tommy Caruso

Good news! If you missed one of the Peer-Led Seminars we’ve been running since early last year, you can now watch the video recordings! The new Peer-Led Seminar section is available through the Archives link in the navigation bar or menu. The seminar recordings and resources are provided for your…

This article discusses references and variables in Ruby along with the mutability or immutablility of objects. It serves as a lead-in to separate articles that discuss mutating and non-mutating methods, and pass by reference/pass by value in Ruby. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–07–23 This is the first in a series of three articles that discuss how Ruby manipulates variables and objects, and, in particular, how objects are passed around in a Ruby program. You can find many such discussions in…

This article discusses whether ruby is pass by value or pass by reference. It is the final part of a 3 part series; the other two articles discuss variables, references, and object mutability; and mutating vs non-mutating methods. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–07–23 This is the last in a series of three articles that discuss how ruby manipulates variables and objects, and, in particular, how objects are passed around in a ruby program. If you haven’t read the first two…

A cheat sheet of some of key commands at our disposal when using Atom text editor. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–02–07 Atom is one of the newer text editors that has been released to the public. It is open source, and the official release for it was only just in June 2015. Yet, even for being as new…

We talk about many of the wrong ways, or anti-patterns, that can derail beginners on their journey to becoming professional programmers. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–06–22 It’s often difficult to prescribe a “right way” for a beginner to learn programming because everyone learns differently. But there are certainly wrong ways to learn. Over the years, we’ve seen many learning anti-patterns. In this article…

This article discusses mutating and non-mutating methods in Ruby. It is the second part of a 3 part series; the other two articles discuss variables, references, and object mutability; and whether Ruby is pass by reference or value. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–07–23 This is the second in a series of three articles that discuss how Ruby manipulates variables and objects, and, in particular, how objects are passed around in a Ruby program. In the Understand Variable References and Mutability…

We cover some basic Ruby concepts that tend to trip up beginners. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–03–02 This is part 3 of our live session series on “Beginning Ruby”. This series is not an introduction to Ruby or programming. Instead, it’s a focused discussion on topics that many people new to programming get tripped…

We cover some basic Ruby concepts that tend to trip up beginners. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–02–26 This is part 2 of our live session series on “Beginning Ruby”. This series is not an introduction to Ruby or programming. Instead, it’s a focused discussion on topics that many people new to programming get tripped…

We cover some basic Ruby concepts that tend to trip up beginners. — Note: This article was originally published on the Launch School blog on 2016–02–25 This is part 1 of our live session series on “Beginning Ruby”. This series is not an introduction to Ruby or programming. Instead, it’s a focused discussion on topics that many people new to programming get tripped…