completed stage 1 of about_strings

* learned about the is_a? method to check the type of an object.

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completed stages 2-5 of about_strings

* learned all about single and double quoted string
* learned how to use backslashes to use a quote inside a string

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completed stages 6-10  of about_strings

* learned many different way to define strings
* flexible strings: %{string here}
* %(string goes here) or
* %!string goes here!
* also learned about heredocs and string concatenation

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completed stages 11-16 of about_strings

* learned about the += and the << (shovel) operators
* += will leave original string unchanged
* << will change the original string
* learned that escape characters work as such in double quoted string
* escape characters are stricly characters in a single quoted string

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completed stages 17-21 of about_strings

* learned that single quotes interpret excape characters when escapingg \
* or '
* learned that double quotes work with string interpolation "#{}"
* single quotes do not work with string interpolation
* learned that you can do any ruby operations in string interpolation

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completed stages 22-27 of about_strings

* learned how to access a single character in a string
* learned about ruby v 1.8 vs 1.9 character representation
* older versions of ruby represent characters as integers
* newer versions of ruby represent characters as strings
* learned about splitting strings and joining arrays

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Merge pull request #7 from glassbead0/75411412_about_strings_master

about strings master

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completed stages 1-5 of about_symbols

* learned that symbols can be compared
* learned that symbols, unlike strings, share an object ID
* learned that all methods become symbols
* learned that constants do not become symbols

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completed stages 6-10 of about_symbols

* learned that symbols and be made from strings
* learned that symbols can have spaces if they are in quotes
* learned that you can build symbols with string interpolation
* learned that to_s is called on symbols that are interpolated
* learned that symbols are not strings

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completed stages 10-13 of about_symbols

* learned that symbols don't have string methods
* learned that symbols can't be concatenated
* learned that symbols can be fromed from string concatenation though.

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