The goal of this course is to be able to build a web application using Ruby, HTML, and CSS by the end of the course.
Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz'. Ruby is a general purpose programming language, meaning you can build all sorts of programs with it. It is known as an interpreted language, as opposed to a compiled language.
Open up your terminal and type irb. This will bring us into the interactive shell. To exit the interactive shell, trpe exit.
# comments in ruby use a hash tag
# Let's try some ruby in the terminal