Sarah Alexander

So if you read this title without knowing that I am learning some Ruby programming you may have started to picture me chipping away at at large red rock (ruby) to create the desired shape for my latest pendent…. well perhaps 😉

In some ways this visual could be true if the actual function of the object was not changed. In a nutshell Refactoring Ruby is basically analysing code and making changes that leaves it

CLEAN SIMPLe and EASY TO MAINTAIN

without effecting the function of the code!

A number of diferent ideas were intorduced and then I was given an opportunity to have a go! for example:

#loop6.times{puts “Melbourne in lockdown”}

or

lockdown=6

“I am in lockdown”+ lockdown.to.s +”!!!!”

#changes to

“I am in lockdown #{lockdown}!!!!”

Pulling together a number of concepts to create a simple app. I am still finding a lack of flow and need to practice a little more- perhaps some coding puzzles might help. THis code is all about verbs… doing code 😉 I used the concepts of  CRUD  

create, read, update, delete

Pulling together a number of ideas… sorting, sorting! if else and defining a method and applying it to an array!

After a small (lockdown induced break” I have started again now with a deadline set I am ploughing through. I am battling myself as a learner as my role as a teacher has sarted to be un undoing. I am frustrated with not completley understanding it and struggling with not having the language fluenency to help myself. I can read chemistry, biology, science, gardening, parently…. this Ruby language is new so I feel slow and clumsy.

Today my Hash.new, .each and putting data from arrays and array of arrays was on the menu.

Woah this is getting a bit tricky… I wonder is it my remote teaching fatigue, having four children remote leanring at home, the wet weatehr or simply things are starting to ramp up! Today I redacted and use a .split method. But the big aaaahaaa moment was simply seeing strings and arrays and starting to get the idea of blocks…. I panic here and there about wher to put the next bit of code… today my take away you can have blocks in blocks!

Thought I might also tackle the additional question the first being about dropcase but the others will have to wait- this beginner is flaking out with brain lockdown fatigue……

This lesson was tough, with the school term starting back this week and today the start of lockdown 5.0 for Melbourne, I am somewhat tired…. but once I got my coding logical mind switched on I got the hang of creating loops. It seems Ruby has a heap of various ways to loop- I managed to create 3 infinate loops and crashed my codecademy learning site 3 times!

I am writing lots of notes in my note book as the retention of these new ideas is somewhat fleating and being able to reference my notes makes it all flow a lot better.

Next up Redaction