Ruby Rookies: operation Project Euler

Ruby Rookies unite!

Goal - Let's get back to the basics. During the month of March, our goal is to improve and polish our Ruby skills using Project Euler. We will tackle a batch of problems each week.  Try these problems prior to class, leave the ones you couldn't solve, and come work in pairs/groups on solutions.

Toward the end of the session, we'll discuss the problems and share solutions.

Preparation -
Go to Project Euler site, and create an account. Then start learning!

3/7 - Problems 1 - 5
3/14 - Problems 6 - 10 meetup
3/21 - Problems 11 - 15 meetup
3/28 - Problems 16 - 20 and beyond meetup

When possible, we will try to have experienced developers on hand to help.  If you would like to be a "mentor" or help as a more experienced Rubyist, you are encouraged to sign-up! :)

http://www.meetup.com/The-Hack-Reactor-San-Francisco-Meetup/events/106895282/

* If you've never coded before - stop-in and we'll help you get set-up.  You'll want a good text editor (google "sublime" or "textmate" or "notepad++") and have Ruby installed on your machine.

 

Space provided by @HackReactor.  (Sorry - no food sponsored.)

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  • Kai Stewart

    Looking forward to next month.
    P.S. Hugo and Fritz: I figured out the prime thing. It took 5 lines of code (not counting 'end's) and almost a minute to run. All of a sudden a bunch of things you'd said fell into place.

    1 · March 14

    • David Kim

      love this!

      March 15

    • Hugo Melo

      That's awesome. I'm not going to ask what the answer was (but totally ping me with the answer).

      1 · March 15

  • MJ

    Thank you David! Your events motivate me to keep plugging away at my ruby skills, and ugh...algorithms are a sore spot for me. I hope the group can keep getting together for these!

    1 · March 14

    • David Kim

      Thank you so much for these kind words! Hope we can continue to do cool things together as a group! Lisa and few of us thoughts about doing bouldering/climbing as a social night!

      1 · March 14

    • MJ

      Also: let's talk about "Hike & Hack" events.

      March 15

  • Juan

    just got back into town after driving 3hrs on the freeways. Not up for another couple hrs back-and-forth to the city tonight. Any way to connect online with the group during the meet? I'm working on the set tonight anyways.

    1 · March 14

    • David Kim

      sorry - we hadn't been into hangouts ... just fun to hack together, but you're always welcome ... do feel free to reach out to friends on the page and share notes

      March 14

  • Cassandra Dixon

    Albert Dixon- Wants to learn as well

    1 · March 1

  • Fernando

    ,

    March 14

  • Douglas Wright

    New Relic Launch Party

    March 7

JetBrains

2 RubyMine licenses to be raffled per month.

Pearson Education/Addison-Wesley

Discounts on publications & products for raffles

O'Reilly

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