Ruby Programming for Beginners

Never used ruby or any other language for programming... use this course to beat those 100's of hours of college education people go through to get those skills, just for a megre price. Great instructor, Clear instructions... perfect course for starters.

Just Great

This course covers very minimal instructions. On a complex area, the tutor needs to spend more time and walk through the code with more video examples. What I find is that the tutor frequently refers to his "book of ruby" after a very brief introduction on the subject. The tutor must realize that this is a VIDEO tutorial and minimal reference to the book must be made as we(customers) want more and more of video practices conducted by the tutor. We are not interested in printed materials but rather more comprehensive videos covering more examples keeping "beginners" in mind. Will this course make you an expert on Ruby? My answer is NO. You will not even get to an intermediate level.

I first studied Python and a little bit of Java on my own and was having a little trouble with all the details of OOP. This course really helped me understand the details of OOP, Huw really makes these concepts come alive. This is a great course to help get you started with Ruby. The book that is included, The Little Book of Ruby, is very easy to follow and is great for referencing as well. Ruby is now my preferred language after going through this course. Even if you are new to programming, this course is right for you. You don't need to know anything about programming to get started. You will be glad you bought the course, this is truly worth your time and money.

Excellent course. Although I agree with the criticisms of the video size, I got over this by downloading the videos and watching them in a native player. Huw's skill and dulcet tones make this an very enjoyable and informative course and I look forward to next one.

I think Huw has done an excellent job here as I am beginning to grasp some things. Udemy could improve the full screen option though. When using a Mac App window spilt like Divvy to spilt the screen say 3/4 for Udemy, 1/4 for an editor, the full screen option takes over the full screen of the computer. It would be beneficial if the full screen only took over the window. There is a Zoom work around however you have to do it every time you want to dabble with the editor. This is not the author's vault rather something for Udemy to consider. I would recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn Ruby. This isn't the only beginner resource that I have been using (Chris Pine's Learn to Program Book is a good resource), TryRuby.org, etc. My point is and the author may agree that this isn't the end all and be all resource. If it helps you on your path and makes a few things stick then you should be happy. Huw does a fantastic job with the basics and my attitude has been if I don't understand something, keep moving as eventually it will stick. The repetition is good! @JaretManuel

So far I love the instructional videos themselves, my only complaint is with the size of the videos. You can watch the videos in the browser at a fixed size (small) and you can view them full-screen, but you can't watch the videos at a reasonable size while working along in an editor. You should offer some options to open the videos at larger sizes in a detached window so that you can follow along in another window/application at the same time.

I only just started the course - am on chapter 3. At different points in the last 10 years or so I have tried understanding object oriented programing (I had some exposure to sequential programing earlier in life). Each time - I struggled to understand the concepts. For the first time ever I think I am beginning to get a hang of this... thanks!

I agree with a previous reviewer. Great content so far, but it would be nice to have alternate instructions for OS X. Luckily it's not that difficult to get Ruby running, but someone who has never used Terminal, might not know enough commands to find and use Ruby.

Good videos and examples so far, but would definitely help to have mac instructions as well, as many programmers today are on mac laptops.