What is Ruby?

As a programmer, your job is to take a problem and break it down into smaller problems until you reach tasks simple enough to be comprehensible to a computer.

In this course, you'll use a programming language to communicate tasks to your computer. A computer program is a series of instructions in a programming language.

There are many programming languages, but we'll learn Ruby. Ruby is an elegant programming language perfect for students who are beginning to code. It's also powerful and expressive, which makes it a great choice for advanced programmers. The following code snippet uses some of the most sophisticated syntax in the language, but you can probably already guess what it does:

Let's get started!