Ruby

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Name all the 19 Parts of Speech of the Ruby language.

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Variables, Global Variables, Instance Variables, Class Variables, Constants, Symbols, Methods, Class Methods, Method Arguments, Numbers, Strings, Blocks, Block Arguments, Ranges, Arrays, Hashes, Regular Expressions, Operators, Keywords,

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Part of Speech - any plain, lowercase word.

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Variable

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Variables can consist of what types of characters?

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letters, digits and underscores

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

x, y, banana2, phone_a_quail

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Variables

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Two types of Numbers

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Integers and Floats

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Part of Speech - a series of digits which can start with a plus of minus sign

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Integer

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

1, 23, -1000, 12_000

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Integer

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Numbers with a decimal point or scientific notation

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Float

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

3.14, -8,08, 12.043e-04

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Float

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Part of Speech - any sort of characters surrounded by double or single quotes

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String

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

"sealab", '2021', "These cartoons are hilarious"

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String

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Part of Speech - look like variables, but start with a colon

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Symbol

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

:a, :b, :ponce_de_leon

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Symbol

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Part of Speech - looks like variables, but capitalized

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Constants

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

Time, Array, Bunny_Lake_Is_Missing, EmpireStateBuilding

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Constant

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Part of Speech - verbs attached to variables and constants by a dot

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Method

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Part of Speech - provides additional information to a Method to perform more specific actions

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Method Argument

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

front_door. open

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variable.method

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

front_door.paint( 3, :red)

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variable.method.method argument

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Part of Speech - usually attached after a variable and/or constant with a double colon

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Class Method

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

Door::new( :oak)

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Constant::class method (method argument)

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Part of Speech - variables that start with a dollar sign

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Global Variable

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

$1, $x, $chunky

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Global Variable

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Part of Speech - variables that begin with @ symbol often used to define the attributes of something

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Instance Variable

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

@x, @y,

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Instance Variable

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Part of Speech - Variables that begin with a double @@ used to define attributes to many related objects

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Class Variable

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

@@x, @@y

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Class Variable

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Part of Speech - characters surrounded by curly braces to group a set of instructions together so that they can be passed around

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Block

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Part of Speech - a set of variables surrounded by pipe characters and separated by commas

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Block Argument

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Part of Speech - two values surrounded by parantheses and separated by an ellipsis...two or three dots

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Range

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

(1..3)

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Range

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Part of Speech - a list surrounded by square brackets and separated by commas

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Array

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

[1,2,3]

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Array

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Part of Speech - a dictionary surrounded by curly braces. Dictionaries match words with their definitions. Ruby does so with arrows made from an equal sign followed by a greater than sign

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Hash

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

{'a' => 'aardvark'}

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Hash

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Part of Speech - a set of characters surrounded by slashes used to find words or patterns in text

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Regular Expression

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Part of Speech - what are these examples of?

/ruby

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Regular Expression

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Part of Speech - characters used to do math to compare things

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Operator

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Part of Speech - built in words, imbued with meaning that cannot be used as variables of changed

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Keywords