DEV Community: Brian Waddell

What I learned today

Brian Waddell — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 23:49:25 +0000

With ruby you can combine more than one method together. This idea helped me pass a test to encode. I used the substitute method .gsub I was able to call the gsub method more than once on a variable secret. I was also able to use .to_s method to turn my number codes into strings. For example I used secret.gsub("a", 1.to_s).gsub(ect.) this form was legal for me to do. I was surprised it worked but I have found that ruby is a user friendly lang. that is thought with programmers in mind. I am really happy to have learned lots of things with Ruby and I am sure I will continue to learn more about this amazing programming lang.

08-08-2023

Brian Waddell — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:17:45 +0000

Hello Everyone, I am still learning all about Ruby. I am getting a hang of the if else statements which are very helpful conditions to use. It seems as though a lot of the problems I encounter can be solve with using an if statement block.I am learning that these conditionals are used by developers most of the time. I am starting to understand why.

TIL #4

Brian Waddell — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 03:41:25 +0000

Hello I am continuing the learn a lot of tricks and really cool methods in Ruby. Today I learned more about the advance gsub techniques which ruby has to offer. gsub is a technique in Ruby programming that takes all the occurrences of the first argument and replaces that with what is written the second argument in the original string. You can also use this method to remove everything except for digits, words, and whitespaces. You can also call on the count method to then count what is left over depending on what you removed and what is left within the original string. This has proven to be helpful when trying to count how many letters a string has when the original contained letters and numbers and we only want to consider the letters or the numbers within the String.

Below is an example of code that removes everything except letters and then the count method is evoked to return a count of what has been left over in this case the letters.

pp"Number of letters in the string is: " +string.gsub(/[^a-z]/i, "").count(string).to_s

TIL

Brian Waddell — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 14:01:23 +0000

Good Morning,

I am learning lots of exciting things with Ruby. Ruby is a new programming language and I am finding it interesting and challenging. But I am finding I have a great support network. Yesterday, I ran into some problems getting my code to run and had to ask questions in the group chat. I quickly found that I had a few good answers not just the TA's helped but fellow students as well. I am grateful for the supportive community. I am currently learning about conditionals and looping statements using ruby. The idea behind how and when to use these important data concepts is the same as other languages I have learned but the syntax is different and will take some time to get use to. But the high level coding that is ruby makes the syntax easy to learn; a lot of the commands is like writing in english so I am learning this programming language fast.

Today I Learned 06-18.

Brian Waddell — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:43:19 +0000

I am learning new and exciting information regarding CSS. I always thought that I had pretty good knowledge of CSS design principles but today is a great example that CSS has lots to learn and anyone can discover something new about the CSS structure. While going through Codecademy introduction to CSS I was able to learn about the attribute selector "The attribute selector can be used to target HTML elements that already contain attributes" so this means that element tags that are the same can be targeted uniquely by their attribute value. The website had a good example and I was able to understand more.

img[src*='winter'] {
height: 50px;
}

img[src*='summer'] {
height: 100px;
}
In the above CSS code, the attribute selector is used to target each image individually by looking specifically for the key value winter and summer within the image tags.

I can always learn something new by remaining curious and open.

What I Learned Today

Brian Waddell — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:17:36 +0000

Today I learned all about CodeSpace in GITHUB. I was already aware of some of the tools GITHUB offers but I was unaware of this cool tool. CodeSpace is a cloud computer system which I will use to write and run my code that I will create. This tool helps eliminate steps such as downloading a coding lang. and downloading the IDE. Now all I have to do is click a button built right in my repository.