When teaching Ruby I always like to work on some programming challenges together to test the problem-solving skills of my students. The main problem I see is that they don’t know how to think like a programmer & they aren’t familiar with the tools available to us. Which tools I’m referring to? I’m not talking … Read more
By reading this article you will gain a basic understanding of the Haskell programming language and the functional programming paradigm. First of all… Why Haskell? Haskell is THE language when it comes to functional programming because it embraces this programming paradigm fully while still being somewhat usable for real-world production applications. Yes, it does have … Read more
Artificial intelligence seems to have reached a peak in popularity, and for good reason, it’s advancing very fast, it has reached the public eye (“thanks” to ChatGPT), and there is VERY active research on the field right now. So I fully immersed myself into the topic (the best way to learn something new, btw) so … Read more
An amazing new feature is now available in Ruby, it’s called pattern matching & it lets you extract specific values from complex data structures like arrays, hashes, and objects using concise syntax. In addition, it helps you check that these objects match a specific structure, so it works as a form of object validation. Since … Read more
What is a Ruby hash? A hash is an efficient data structure that lets you store data in UNIQUE key-value pairs. It’s like a kind of dictionary that you can build & use to quickly search for something. The “word” in this dictionary is the key, and the “definitions” are the values stored under each … Read more