112 Things I Have Learned about Ruby Programming

I worked through the excellent introductory course to Ruby by Boris Paskhaver on Udemy.com (https://www.udemy.com/learn-to-code-with-ruby-lang). The following is a list of things the course has either taught me or refreshed in my mind, which I hope will be of use to others.

Functional programming in #JavaScript makes a lot more sense now

It's a small step, but I'm excited for the possibilities it augurs.

Spent two hours on #JavaScript closures, but it was worth it

Lightbulb moment: pass by value vs pass by reference in #JavaScript

@AnthonyPAlicea does it again. He makes these things so much easier to understand.

Insight of the day: an IF statement relies on coercion

From @AnthonyPAlicea's course on #JavaScript, Lecture 27: https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/learn/v4/t/lecture/2237498?start=0
A real lightbulb moment for me.

Scope chain in Javascript

A global variable is accessible from within a function in Javascript.

#JavaScript execution stack

This explains so much.