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Harrison Wood - Week 2 Ignition Assignment - Ruby #5

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###Intro to the Back End
**Required**

What is the difference between front- and back-end development?
Why do you need to install Ruby but not HTML/CSS?
**What is the difference between front- and back-end development?**
**Frontend** is the part of the web that you can see and interact with.
**backend** usually consists of three parts: a server, an application, and a database
**Why do you need to install Ruby but not HTML/CSS?**
HTML/css are what you see on every site whereas ruby is used on the backend.
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HTML/CSS are interpreted by a browser. Ruby needs to be interpreted to into machine code which has to be installed


Read the [intro to back end on the Odin Project](http://www.theodinproject.com/web-development-101/introduction-to-the-back-end) description, and the [What is: Back-end web development](http://blog.generalassemb.ly/what-is-back-end-web-development/) blog post.

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###Intro to Ruby
####Required

What is an "interpreted" language?<br>
What is IRB?<br>
What are Objects?<br>
**What is an "interpreted" language?<br>**

**What is IRB?<br>**
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Interactive Ruby Shell IRB allows the execution of Ruby commands with immediate response, experimenting in real-time.
**What are Objects?<br>**

What are Methods?<br>
What are Classes?<br>
What are Blocks?<br>
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