I'm in the process of applying to App Academy 
<http://www.appacademy.io/#p-home>, a developer bootcamp that focuses on 
Rails and JavaScript. For the past few months, I've been learning Ruby 
syntax and writing small programs that give me some practice at 
manipulating strings and arrays. The next round of my application process 
requires that I write a few more, small programs based not upon problem 
descriptions in English, but based on tests written in Ruby. They use RSpec 
and the Test::Unit framework.

App Academy mentions some online resources that give a basic introduction 
to Ruby tests, so I've been using, the Ruby Koans <http://rubykoans.com/> 
tutorial, 
this blog post 
<http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2005/3/18/ruby-learning-test-1-are-you-there-world>
the first (free) part of Code School's RSpec course 
<https://www.codeschool.com/courses/testing-with-rspec>. Prior to this I 
read about six chapters of Peter Cooper's *Beginning Ruby* and I skimmed 
the first ten chapters of Chris Pines' *Learn to Program* which uses 
examples written in Ruby. Instead of investing in more online resources, I 
think I'm ready to pay an experienced person to meet with me a few times.

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