What a pleasurable way to learn a language!

This site was recommended to me, and I have to say, it is a fun way to become more familiar with the syntax of a language. There’s the journey aspect:

things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise
your path thus far [...X______________________________________________] 19/280

and the fact that when you see something you want to investigate further, you just write another unit test:

  def test_slicing_arrays
    array = [:peanut, :butter, :and, :jelly]

    assert_equal [:peanut], array[0,1]
    assert_equal [:peanut,:butter], array[0,2]
    assert_equal [:and,:jelly], array[2,2]
    assert_equal [:and,:jelly], array[2,20]
    assert_equal [], array[4,0]
    assert_equal [], array[3,0] # my addition
    assert_equal [], array[4,100]
    assert_equal nil, array[5,0]
  end

Now, running through these koans certainly isn’t going to make me a Ruby expert, but I will have passing familiarity with the language and be ready to use it on my next small project.

Apparently I’ve been living under a rock, because there appear to be koans projects for quite a few languages: java, haskell, erlang (cue whatsapp reference), and even bash. I was, however, unable to find a koans package for assembler.