Crystal

3 Mentors

Our mentors are friendly, experienced Crystal developers who will help teach you new techniques and tricks.

953 Students

Join hundreds of students who have enjoyed learning and improving their skills by taking this track.

50 Exercises

Hundreds of hours have gone into making these exercises fun, useful, and challenging to help you enjoy learning.

About Crystal

class HelloWorld
  def self.hello(name = "World")
    "Hello, #{name}!"
  end
end

Crystal is a compiled language that is currently in the alpha stages of development. These are some of the language's goals:

Ruby-inspired syntax.
Statically type-checked but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.
Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.
Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.
Compile to efficient native code.

Join the Crystal track

A tremendous learning opportunity to explore the depth of your own knowledge

Exercism is fantastic in learning new languages but that is not the extent of it. If you are a "more experienced" programmer you may have encountered impostor syndrome: the idea you don't really know what you think you know. Exercism lets you solve problems and put them in the space of open feedback which is a tremendous learning opportunity to explore the depth of your own knowledge. Even if you have been programming in a language for awhile it is worth checking into Exercism to see where you stand with current implementation practices.

Tom Leen, Portland

Relaxed. Encouraging. Supportive.

Meet the Crystal Track mentors

Once you join the Crystal language track, you will receive support and feedback from our team of mentors. Here are the bios of a few of the mentors of this track.