Holiday break reading/assignments

[tgaff]

@justincastilla @nathanallen @HeyStenson

Please add ideas, suggestions for holiday assignments.

[tgaff]

• CodeAcademy - OK. starts off easy and has explanations. Their REPL leaves a bit to be desired though.
• codewars - too tough, only a few 2kyu levels and they're not great
• learn ruby the hard way - OK dry http://learnrubythehardway.org/book/ex4.html
• try ruby - http://tryruby.org/levels/2/challenges/4 - very basic but ok start :-1:
• ruby monk - starts with objects https://rubymonk.com/learning/books/1-ruby-primer/chapters/6-objects/lessons/37-syntactic-sugar-for-special-methods :+1:
• http://codelikethis.com/lessons/learn_to_code/strings - deceptively simple but might work really well :+1:

[nathanallen]

• ruby method drills lab (may be too advanced to do solo)

[tgaff]

Plan: 1) ruby reading 2) fix 2 issues from your issue tracker (at least) 3) method drills - maybe add simpler module 0

[nathanallen]

Text Adventure lab, for consideration: https://github.com/sf-wdi-25/text_adventure

[tgaff]

@nathanallen The text adventure looks pretty tough. Could we have more examples? Maybe implement the first room for them in both js and rb?

[nathanallen]

I'd prefer puts and console.log to go outside function calls. I think it's a bad habit.

def add(a,b)
 a + b
end

puts add(1,1)

[nathanallen]

Not sure about these examples...

def isGreaterThanFive?(number)
  number > 5
end

def completelyDisagree?(bool)
   bool !== true
end

Ideas:

• isTruthy?
• numberToStars
• youSaid("hello") # => 'You said: "hello"'