I'm on Tealeaf Academy's Ruby course. To take a bit of diversion and supplement my Ruby adventure using an external source other than Tealeaf, I decided to take up the Codecademy Ruby as Chris suggested in one of his Tealeaf videos.
I just finished it, about ten minutes ago. Took me a day and half of sitting in front of the computer, following the codes samples, exercises and googling some errors or referring to their Q&A section. It was a very smooth and enriching experience on the whole. The console wasn't buggy and the frustrating moments were few, thankfully. You must remember though, that the console expects every code to be letter-perfect down to the period or exclamation. For instance, if, in the exercise it tells you to 'puts "This is your balance!" and you miss out the !, it will keep throwing up errors. So develop a keen sight for these niggling punctuations. You will run into some minor errors but nothing that a short trip into the Q&A sphere can't solve. Or just google your problem and append it with Codecademy Ruby and someone else would have faced the problem in all likelihood.
The window to the left of the console where you get the instructions, and the intro is quite informative. I learnt a few things I didn't learn on other sites. I am on Team Treehouse as well, and they have a few Ruby and Rails courses.
I'll see if I can post some issues I faced and how I managed to solve them in the next post. Meanwhile, I have to get back to creating a Blackjack game on Tealeaf.
Happy doing! 3.times {puts "Yay"}
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