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Autovivification in Ruby

Autovivification is the concept that a hash style data structure can make inferences about its internal structure as it is being created
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Flatiron Day 14: ARC and UI Tricks

The following is a guest post by Dulio Denis and originally appeared on his blog. Dulio is currently in the iOS-000 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Another geofencing Morning Assessment.  This time I put in a button to switch between jumping in and out of the region I set-up so I wouldn’t […]
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Tracing Recursion Through the Towers of Hanoi Problem

The following is a guest post by Christopher Lee and originally appeared on his blog. Christopher is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. During my second week of learning how to code at the Flatiron School, we were given the Towers of Hanoi problem to apply our new […]
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Flatiron School Weekend Three – The Tap Method

The following is a guest post by Samuel Owens and originally appeared on his blog. Samuel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Today I wanted to talk about a couple ways I think the .tap method in Ruby is useful. The first time a lot of us […]
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A Short Explanation of ARGV

The following is a guest post by Joe O’Conor and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is a Flatiron School alumni. You can follow him on Twitter here. I’d come across ARGV or ARGV[0] a few times while looking at code examples on StackOverflow or the Ruby mailing lists. I recognized it as a kind of placeholder variable, but did not really […]
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Dot(.) Send Me to the Moon

The following is a guest post by Logan Hasson and originally appeared on his blog. Logan is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. One of the greatest things about Ruby is its never-ending ability to momentarily bewilder you before exploding your brain all over your face. Whether it’s […]