[ANN/PIMP] Ruby Certificate Program @ University of Washington This Fall

Ryan_Davis1 · 24 July 2007 22:20

There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3 quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:

http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp

There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.

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Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:

1. Basics

      2. Language Summary
          hello world
          invoking methods (go see ri)
          Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols
          Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until

3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing

From here on out, the classes and homework will be
driven via tests:

            All homework will have impl and tests where the student
            needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
            bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
            attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
            appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
            of (buggy) code without tests.

      4. Language in More Detail
          Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
          More control flow
          Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
            break/redo/next/retry)
          Exception handling

      5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
          Classes
                is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
          Methods/messages
          Modules
                include/extend, when to use vs classes
          Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work

      6. Playing with Standard Libraries
          Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
          RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
          tcp chat server

7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
or self-driven project you'd rather.

8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining

      9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
          Hpricot - html/xml parser
          Mechanize - web scraper

10. Playing Well with Others
Working with & contributing to the open-source community

M_Edward_Ed_Borasky1 · 25 July 2007 01:43

Ryan Davis wrote:

There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3
quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then
rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all
three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:

    http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp

There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make
this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is
interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.

-----

Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:

     1. Basics

     2. Language Summary
         hello world
         invoking methods (go see ri)
         Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols
         Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until

     3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing

           From here on out, the classes and homework will be
           driven via tests:

           All homework will have impl and tests where the student
           needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
           bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
           attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
           appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
           of (buggy) code without tests.

     4. Language in More Detail
         Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
         More control flow
         Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
           break/redo/next/retry)
         Exception handling

     5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
         Classes
               is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
         Methods/messages
         Modules
               include/extend, when to use vs classes
         Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work

     6. Playing with Standard Libraries
         Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
         RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
         tcp chat server

     7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
           or self-driven project you'd rather.

     8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
         Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining

     9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
         Hpricot - html/xml parser
         Mechanize - web scraper

     10. Playing Well with Others
         Working with & contributing to the open-source community

Sounds fantastic!! How is this to be delivered? Electronically? Or must
one drive up to Seattle from, say, Portland?

Forum · 25 July 2007 20:45

There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3
quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then
rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all
three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:

        http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp

There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make
this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is
interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.

-----

Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:

      1. Basics

      2. Language Summary
          hello world
          invoking methods (go see ri)
          Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols

--how did "datatypes" slip in ?

          Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until

      3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing

            From here on out, the classes and homework will be
            driven via tests:

            All homework will have impl and tests where the student
            needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
            bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
            attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
            appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
            of (buggy) code without tests.

      4. Language in More Detail
          Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
          More control flow
          Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
            break/redo/next/retry)
          Exception handling

      5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
          Classes
                is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
          Methods/messages
          Modules
                include/extend, when to use vs classes
          Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work

++ breaking even already

      6. Playing with Standard Libraries
          Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
          RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
          tcp chat server

      7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
            or self-driven project you'd rather.

      8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
          Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining

      9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
          Hpricot - html/xml parser
          Mechanize - web scraper

      10. Playing Well with Others

++ that really is surprising

Working with & contributing to the open-source community

Wish you lots of success.
Robert

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On 7/24/07, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:

--

We're on a mission from God. ~ Elwood,

Daniel_N1 · 25 July 2007 01:49

Indeed, is it available on the net? If it is is it available
internationally?

···

On 7/25/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

Ryan Davis wrote:
> There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3
> quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then
> rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all
> three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:
>
> http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp
>
> There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make
> this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is
> interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.
>
> -----
>
> Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:
>
> 1. Basics
>
> 2. Language Summary
> hello world
> invoking methods (go see ri)
> Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols
> Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until
>
> 3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing
>
> From here on out, the classes and homework will be
> driven via tests:
>
> All homework will have impl and tests where the student
> needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
> bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
> attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
> appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
> of (buggy) code without tests.
>
> 4. Language in More Detail
> Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
> More control flow
> Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
> break/redo/next/retry)
> Exception handling
>
> 5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
> Classes
> is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
> Methods/messages
> Modules
> include/extend, when to use vs classes
> Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work
>
> 6. Playing with Standard Libraries
> Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
> RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
> tcp chat server
>
> 7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
> or self-driven project you'd rather.
>
> 8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
> Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining
>
> 9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
> Hpricot - html/xml parser
> Mechanize - web scraper
>
> 10. Playing Well with Others
> Working with & contributing to the open-source community
>
Sounds fantastic!! How is this to be delivered? Electronically? Or must
one drive up to Seattle from, say, Portland?

Ryan_Davis1 · 25 July 2007 02:43

Sorry, but this is a classroom (only) based curriculum. I don't know of any plans to make it electronically available at this time. Nor would I want to teach that, I think.

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On Jul 24, 2007, at 18:43 , M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

Sounds fantastic!! How is this to be delivered? Electronically? Or must
one drive up to Seattle from, say, Portland?

James_Britt · 25 July 2007 02:02

Regardless, THIS along with the slew of Ruby (and Rails) books that are pouring out of publishers this year goes a long way towards pushing Ruby further into being taken seriously by more people.
Most excellent!
Syllabus looks good too!

···

On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Daniel N wrote:

On 7/25/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

Ryan Davis wrote:
> There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3
> quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then
> rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all
> three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:
>
> http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp
>
> There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make
> this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is
> interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.
>
> -----
>
> Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:
>
> 1. Basics
>
> 2. Language Summary
> hello world
> invoking methods (go see ri)
> Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols
> Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until
>
> 3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing
>
> From here on out, the classes and homework will be
> driven via tests:
>
> All homework will have impl and tests where the student
> needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
> bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
> attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
> appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
> of (buggy) code without tests.
>
> 4. Language in More Detail
> Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
> More control flow
> Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
> break/redo/next/retry)
> Exception handling
>
> 5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
> Classes
> is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
> Methods/messages
> Modules
> include/extend, when to use vs classes
> Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work
>
> 6. Playing with Standard Libraries
> Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
> RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
> tcp chat server
>
> 7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
> or self-driven project you'd rather.
>
> 8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
> Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining
>
> 9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
> Hpricot - html/xml parser
> Mechanize - web scraper
>
> 10. Playing Well with Others
> Working with & contributing to the open-source community
>
Sounds fantastic!! How is this to be delivered? Electronically? Or must
one drive up to Seattle from, say, Portland?

Indeed, is it available on the net? If it is is it available
internationally?

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