Homework questions completed - KK

week1/homework/questions.txt

@@ -4,12 +4,25 @@ p.86-90 Strings (Strings section in Chapter 6 Standard Types)
 
 1. What is an object?
 
+    Objects are instances of a class. An object is defined by a class. A class is a blueprint from which individual objects are created. You typically define methods that let you access and manipulate the state of an object.
+
 2. What is a variable?
+   There are several different types of variables in Ruby:
+   Local Variable
+   Instance Variale 
+   Global variable 
+   Constant
+
+   In general, a variable will vary or change, it is not fixed.
 
 3. What is the difference between an object and a class?
+   An object is an instance of a class, while a class is a blueprint from which individual objects are created.
 
 4. What is a String?
+Ruby strings are sequences of characters. They normally hold printable characters. Strings are objects of class String.
+Strings are often created using string literals - sequences of characters between delimiters.
 
 5. What are three messages that I can send to a string object? Hint: think methods
+a statement, expression, here documents
 
 6. What are two ways of defining a String literal? Bonus: What is the difference between the two?

week1/homework/strings_and_rspec_spec.rb

@@ -15,16 +15,18 @@
 		end
 		it "should be able to count the charaters"
 		it "should be able to split on the . charater" do
-			pending
-			result = @my_string.count
-			result = str.split(@my_string)
+
+
+			result = str.count(@my_string)
+			result2 = @my_string.split(".")
 			result.should have(2).items	
-			return result
+			return result + " " + result2
 		end
 		it "should be able to give the encoding of the string" do
-			pending 'helpful hint: should eq (Encoding.find("UTF-8"))'
-			result.encoding(UTF-8)
+
+			encoderesult = @my_string.encoding
+			encoderesult.encoding
+			encoderesult should eq Encoding.find("UTF-8")
 		end
 	end
 end
-