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TIL 04/03/23

jazmineubanks — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:51:38 +0000

Today I started breaking into Rails!
This is helping the ruby side of things make sense and click a little better for me.
I learned an acronym from the professor: RCAV. This stands for route, controller, action, and response.

TIL 03/31/23

jazmineubanks — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:30:24 +0000

Almost done with week 5 of my program!
Today I built a QR code with ruby.
I was surprised to see how easy it was, and that it did not take many lines of code.
I watched another youtube video to help explain what each lines does a little better.
Sometimes the repetition helps set things in.

Today I will be working with APIs and building a program that tells you the weather of your desired location.

TIL 3/29/23

jazmineubanks — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:15:48 +0000

Today I am struggling with my linktree project...
for some reason, I can't get all the items in my page to align center.
I have used align: center and display:flex... neither are working.

However, Today I will play along with margins.

TIL 03/29/23

jazmineubanks — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:12:36 +0000

Today I learned something vital....

ALWAYS PUSH TO GITHUB...

After multiple commits to my linktree project, I lost all my work because I did not push to github and I did not pin my workspace.
Even though it was frustrating to have to redo the entire project, it was a great lesson.
I bet I wont forget to do it again!!

TIL 03/23/23

jazmineubanks — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:29:59 +0000

Today was a very frustrating day as I dived into the EACH module in my Ruby course.

I was stuck on a specific question for quite some time:

Write a program that:

Asks the user to enter a word.

The program should print each letter in the word the number of times it appears in the word.

I realized that I was highly overthinking it. I relied on chat GBT to help explain things to me and the answer it provided still was not passing in the ruby course.
I asked for help and others could not figure it out as well.
I decided to take a break and look at it with fresh eyes on 03/24.
At this point I was still frustrated so, I asked another classmate of mine and WALA!
The answer is below:

puts "Enter a word:"

answer = gets.chomp.split("")

answer.each do |letter|

count = answer.count(letter)
p "#{letter} appears #{count} times"
end

I understand why this was done in this format. I still believe I need more and more practice!

TIL 3/20/23

jazmineubanks — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:56:43 +0000

Today I have continued to work in ruby. I have worked on integers, float, and strings. I am currently struggling with Integers and float. Today my teacher assistant cleared up what gets.chomp means. Apparently I have been using it all wrong.

Currently I am on float and this is my question to complete:

Output ten divided by 3 rounded to 3 decimal places

I feel like I am overthinking it. I have tried different variations but I cannot figure out how to round it to the 3rd decimal.
My answer at the moment is: p 10 / 3.round(3).to_f
the output keeps coming out as 3.333333333333

I will work on figuring this out tonight!

TIL 03/17/23

jazmineubanks — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:23:43 +0000

Today while brushing up on my ruby skills, I decided to dive into the topic of productivity and how to learn through a course on Coursera. I love learning about how the brain works and how to be a better learner. This will help me progress in my learning!

TIL 03/15/22

jazmineubanks — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:37:32 +0000

Today I was working in code academy trying to further my understanding of Loops and arrays. I felt like when I was going over the content about loops, it made sense in my head. However, when it came down to the practice questions, I could not figure out the answers. I believe I need to continue practicing.

One question I struggled with was:

Add an if/else statement inside your .each.

if the current word equals the word to be redacted, then print "REDACTED " with that extra space.
Otherwise (else), print word + " ".
The extra space in both cases prevents the words from running together.

The correct answer to this question is:
words.each { |word|
if word == redact
print "REDACTED "
else
print word + " "
end }

I feel like when I am reading the questions, I for some reason cannot make sense of what is being asked of me. I will try to re-read the questions and take things slower, along with my practice.

TIL 03/14/23

jazmineubanks — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:33:00 +0000

Today I am still working on Ruby. I am trying to get myself to remember booleans and their meanings, so I will continue to study these.

(taken from code academy)

With && both comparisons on the left and right must evaluate to true for the entire statement to return true. If the left side does not return true it will not bother trying the right side
With || either the right or left side must evaluate to true. If the left side evaluates to true, the right side will not be tried because it has met the condition of one side being true.
With ! you reverse the result. If you’re false you’re now true. if you’re true you’re now false! Just think of it as opposite day!

TIL 03/13/23

jazmineubanks — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:37:15 +0000

Today I continue to learn Ruby basics. I practiced more databases and got some clarification on Ruby loops.

TIL 03/12/23

jazmineubanks — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:06:56 +0000

Today I learned about loops in Ruby.
*Simple Loops*
loop do
print "Do you want to continue? (y/n) "
answer = gets.chomp.downcase
end

While loops:
answer = ""
while answer != "n"
print "Do you want me to repeat this pointless loop again? (y/n) "
answer = gets.chomp.downcase
end

Until Loops**
answer = ""
until answer == "no" do
print "Do you want this loop to continue? (y/n) "
answer = gets.chomp
end

TIL 03/10/23

jazmineubanks — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:44:09 +0000

On March 10, 2023 I got some help with parameters and Hash in Ruby.