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Today was an introduction to the course. We got to jump into Ruby right away after some brief personal introductions, starting immediately with pair-programming. We got to look at some of the same problems that we’ve seen while preparing for the course, but the curveball of having to do it as a pair definitely added a challenge. Once we switched back and forth a few times, we grew more accustomed to communicating our thoughts and being able to work out the problems as a team. As time goes on, I’m sure the pair-programming will get easier and more natural, and the course material will get more challenging, so it will be interesting to see how things change compared to day 1.

We covered some of the basics of Ruby today, utilizing objects like strings, arrays, hashes and enumerators to solve today’s exercises. The material was very familiar, but even so, I was able to get something out of it, as my partner and I were able to provide different approaches.

We will already start to dip into new material on day 2, so it will be fun to start putting some new methods and techniques to use!