exercism_io revisited

I recently got back into exercism.io. For whatever reason I only completed the first Ruby exercise and never returned, but now I have turned over  new leaf. I have decided that I need to write more code outside of work. Lately I have only been reading books and solving small problems on treehouse.

exercism is an awesome tool that is obtainable for any novice in programming in a multitude of languages.

I feel as if I am a decent Ruby programmer but could use some help in the "Ruby Way" of doing things and best practices. exercism_io will hopefully get me to the next level; the feedback I have already received from my first submission has already helped.

I have also made my first Swift submission which was ok, the actual code did not compile and I couldn't get the test suite to run in xcode. I have been bootstrapping my learning in Swift with the free Swift books offered by Apple on the iBooks app. I highly recommend picking that up.

If you are looking to join a group on exercism, join us on the Ruby Newbie team and if you need help setting up exercism, feel free to reach out.

Installed exercism.io

I tried installing execism.io a number of times but could not figure out what I was doing wrong, well until last weekend. So here my steps.

1. Signup for execism.io
2. Download the client
3. Make sure you have Hombrew installed *I missed this step.
4. Now follow these instructions
5. Once installed use this guide to get started

*If you have issues let me know and I or a member of the exercism team can assist. Katrina Owen is very responsive.

It took me a while to get up and running but I am looking forward to getting going on this. not only is there mini:test and Ruby code to solve, there also code available in a number of different languages. I might try out the Python or Go code eventually but at the moment the only extra work I do is Ruby.