Well, we hold this once-a-month workshop at work to share knowledge about various tools and methods we use and we usually have three hours for a subject.
Since me and a couple of my colleagues have used Ruby extensively to the benefit of our projects there is a growing interest about the language ( nothing like good, clean, working code that helps make the deadlines when you want to attract attention ).
Now, I know that you can't teach someone Ruby in three hours, but the audience is high calibre, experienced professionals with very good theoretical and practical backgrounds, so we only need to provide a highspeed hands-on tour of Ruby and let nature take it's course (anyone ever thought that Ruby pulls programmers minds like a black hole pulls matter? The closer you get the harder it gets to get away. And you need to be very far away to have any hope of escaping )
So I'll stop rumbling and get to the question:
Anyone has some introductory hands-on material or any pointers on how we could put together a three hour Ruby workshop?
I can't help but think that someone from those .rb teams out there has already thought something up.
And before someone points me to the Quizes, yes I thought about them, although I haven't yet found one that can serve as a good introductory workshop example.
Cheers,
V.-
Well, we hold this once-a-month workshop at work to share knowledge about various tools and methods we use and we usually have three hours for a subject.
Since me and a couple of my colleagues have used Ruby extensively to the benefit of our projects there is a growing interest about the language ( nothing like good, clean, working code that helps make the deadlines when you want to attract attention ).
Now, I know that you can't teach someone Ruby in three hours, but the audience is high calibre, experienced professionals with very good theoretical and practical backgrounds, so we only need to provide a highspeed hands-on tour of Ruby and let nature take it's course (anyone ever thought that Ruby pulls programmers minds like a black hole pulls matter? The closer you get the harder it gets to get away. And you need to be very far away to have any hope of escaping )
So I'll stop rumbling and get to the question:
Anyone has some introductory hands-on material or any pointers on how we could put together a three hour Ruby workshop?
I can't help but think that someone from those .rb teams out there has already thought something up.
And before someone points me to the Quizes, yes I thought about them, although I haven't yet found one that can serve as a good introductory workshop example.
Cheers,
V.-
Well, we hold this once-a-month workshop at work to share knowledge about various tools and methods we use and we usually have three hours for a subject.
Since me and a couple of my colleagues have used Ruby extensively to the benefit of our projects there is a growing interest about the language ( nothing like good, clean, working code that helps make the deadlines when you want to attract attention ).
Now, I know that you can't teach someone Ruby in three hours, but the audience is high calibre, experienced professionals with very good theoretical and practical backgrounds, so we only need to provide a highspeed hands-on tour of Ruby and let nature take it's course (anyone ever thought that Ruby pulls programmers minds like a black hole pulls matter? The closer you get the harder it gets to get away. And you need to be very far away to have any hope of escaping )
So I'll stop rumbling and get to the question:
Anyone has some introductory hands-on material or any pointers on how we could put together a three hour Ruby workshop?
I can't help but think that someone from those .rb teams out there has already thought something up.
And before someone points me to the Quizes, yes I thought about them, although I haven't yet found one that can serve as a good introductory workshop example.
Cheers,
V.-
Niaghhhhh, I get the urge to strangle DHH sometimes :).
As much as I like Rails I haven't written a single line of Ruby code using it (and I scored a decent 47 with the ruby score script ) and I don't feel good about the latest trend of sticking with Rails examples whenever introducing Ruby.
Notice: the above presentation might just as well be a presentation about Rails (it looks like that anyway). It's just that lately I find myself having to explain that Ruby is a *lot* more than Rails and hence the urge to strangle DHH :).
That said, if I decided using the slides I'd take the first 16 and use Rake or Rant for a DSL example since that applies more to my line of work :).
I just come over this thread an had a look at the slides. Could someboy
tell me which software was used to create these slides?
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Regards,
John Wilger
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Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
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Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, John Wilger wrote:
On 11/21/05, Achim Domma (SyynX Solutions GmbH) <achim.domma@syynx.de> wrote:
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all happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. all misery
comes from the desire for oneself to be happy.
-- bodhicaryavatara
On 11/21/05, John Wilger <johnwilger@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/21/05, Achim Domma (SyynX Solutions GmbH) <achim.domma@syynx.de> wrote:
> >> http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html
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> I just come over this thread an had a look at the slides. Could someboy
> tell me which software was used to create these slides?
+1
Wasn't any identifier in the code, so perhaps it's a custom job -- but
those really are nice looking slides.
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Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
nothing like good, clean, working code that helps make the deadlines when you want to attract attention ).
)
nothing like good, clean, working code that helps make the deadlines when you want to attract attention ).
)